RE: i dont think evil is real
December 16, 2022 at 8:26 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2022 at 8:27 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Evil is not real as a supernatural concept. People do bad things because of trauma, abuse, mental illness etc. People who do those sorts of things are broken, flawed beings.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
