RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 22, 2015 at 2:40 pm
(August 22, 2015 at 2:33 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: If I start posting stupid things that atheists say, will that cause you to reject atheism?
Of course not. People say stupid things all the time that do not accurately reflect the core beliefs of the group to which they belong.
For example, if I were to post all the blunders made by Joe Biden, would that BY ITSELF be a reason to conclude that all males, all democrats or all Americans are equally stupid? No, it simply does not follow.
So, what exactly is the point of trying to prove Christianity to be false by tying it to something stupid said by Romney or anyone else?
Well I guess if you read stuff like that saying by Catholic priests and how much religious people like to listen to them it's scary. Like in documentary "God Loves Uganda" there is a real life scene of Evangelical priest preaching to people how homosexuals are monsters that during their sexual acts eat each other shits as they come out of their assholes and he also shows them large pictures of it and you see people going berserk. So that in Uganda homophobia is so big that you don't even have to be gay and you can even be married with children and yet people can be made to believe you're gay and prosecute you and even kill you.
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"
