A proposition: What serves Sam Harris as God? The self-evidence of the unacceptability of undue suffering. I derived this from his fundamental axiomatic statement in The Moral Landscape @SamHarrisOrg
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What symbolizes for Christians the utilitarian principle that we should strive to minimize the suffering and maximize the well-being of other sentient life? Their mental images of God's beneficence, Mary's tenderness, and Christ's sacrifice.
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If our souls are eternal and saved through faith in christ, then what precident is there in their doctrines to even attempt to relieve earthly suffering?
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Try reading the New Testament?
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