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"
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(April 19, 2023 at 9:08 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: And, it doesn't faze the Mormon faithful in the slightest.
Thief and assassin for hire. Member in good standing of the Rogues Guild.
Faith has a way of suffocating logic, reasoning, and any sort of critical thinking.
I remember back when I was a churchgoer hearing a sermon where a prophet was seldom paid any attention in his own town/area. What I got out of that was, "Well, that's just Achmed. His whole family is crazy."
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
(April 20, 2023 at 12:21 am)Ravenshire Wrote:(April 19, 2023 at 9:08 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Or the Scientologists, that their hero and founder, L. Ron Hubbard was a *science fiction* author! SMH.
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(April 20, 2023 at 8:51 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:(April 20, 2023 at 12:21 am)Ravenshire Wrote: And, it doesn't faze the Mormon faithful in the slightest. It just beggars belief that these people eat that shit up. However, I was a member at a website many years ago, where a guy, on a lark, went into a second hand store and bought a red kaftan and turban. He proceeded to walk around offering prophecies. He gained an entourage (whether believers or not wasn't said). One person he read her palm, and claimed that someone she loved would die within some period of time. When she got upset, he told her the scam, but she declaimed it, and claimed that he was only trying to save her feelings. There are people ready to believe anything told to them, even with a logical explanation.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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"
(April 20, 2023 at 9:12 pm)Fireball Wrote:(April 20, 2023 at 8:51 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: Or the Scientologists, that their hero and founder, L. Ron Hubbard was a *science fiction* author! SMH. Even otherwise intelligent people fall for this sort of mysticism. One of the better examples is Arthur Conan Doyle. A physician, ophthalmologist, general surgeon, and quite a good amateur botanist, he nevertheless was a hardcore proponent of spiritualism. It eventually destroyed his friendship with Harry Houdini; Doyle went so far as to declare Houdini a liar and a fraud when the latter insisted that he had no mystic powers, that he was an illusionist. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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"
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