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Stupid things atheists say: Goatherders
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I think it's mostly just hyperbolic rhetoric.
But obviously they were far more ignorant the past than we are, same as future peopels will see us as very ignorant.  (September 17, 2023 at 5:25 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I think it's mostly just hyperbolic rhetoric. I know, right? I can easily imagine people in the 30th century saying, 'Those poor 21st century humans - they didn't even know how to seal their hyperdimensional rectifiers with quantum putty!' Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
 (September 16, 2023 at 11:43 pm)Data Wrote: 2. They were as intelligent as modern man. Writers of the Bible knew less about cosmology than an average nine-year-old child today. So the Bible claims that the Earth is flat with the dome over it while the stars are stuck to this dome and can shake loose during earthquakes and fall to Earth. It describes a world that runs on magic and has talking animals, giants, invisible spirits, and demons that can suspend the laws of nature at will and take control of living beings. The humans in it have a magic being that lives in their body.
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"
Who said anything about Bronze Agers?
(September 17, 2023 at 7:06 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Who said anything about Bronze Agers? No one. It’s one of those made up things that self-righteous twatwaffles like to say about atheists. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
I dunno, I think I've heard the expression from people like the Amazing Atheist, Aron Ra, Hitchens, Harris, and so on online.
 RE: Stupid things atheists say: Goatherders
September 17, 2023 at 8:01 am
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September 17, 2023 at 8:21 am
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(September 17, 2023 at 7:50 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I dunno, I think I've heard the expression from people like the Amazing Atheist, Aron Ra, Hitchens, Harris, and so on online. It's used on this forum too. If you search for "herders" in the box in the upper right, you'll see lots of examples. Here's one: Quote:RE: Is it possible that the universe could be eternal??... emphasis added
Granted, writers of the Bible were not just goat herders, they were also ignorant, racist, sexist, superstitious barbarians who believed everything they couldn't explain in the world was magic.
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"
(September 17, 2023 at 7:50 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I dunno, I think I've heard the expression from people like the Amazing Atheist, Aron Ra, Hitchens, Harris, and so on online. It's used on this forum too. If you search for "herders" in the box in the upper right, you'll see lots of examples. Here's one: emphasis added [/quote] You found one, but you quoted me. Lame. |
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