(May 31, 2015 at 5:17 am)Nestor Wrote: I think the Dawkins episode, with the Jesuit priest, was the best one thus far.Why do you say that?
I just listened to this episode yesterday and thought it was awful. DeGrasse really let that Jesuit asshole unnecessarily get away with bullshit. Like that Jesuit asshole said he firmly believes in evolution and that can't be true, because any serious Catholic can't claim he believes in evolution because committing Adam, Rib-Woman and Talking Snake just kills the sin that all Christianity revolves around. Dawkins already established in his documentaries that Xtians, when pressed, will try to go around this question and as Dawkins says "Have their cake and eat it too", because to them it is a "white" lie to lure people into submitting to their idiotic worldviews and these people should not be cut any slacks since their stupidity really undermines our civilization and well-being.
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"
