(June 22, 2016 at 4:29 pm)robvalue Wrote: The OP question was surprisingly good,
I don't understand how was it good? Like I tried to explain with an earlier post it's like if he asked if Michio Kaku went to space and saw the world was flat or Sam Harris suddenly started materializing vibuti or Dawkins had a Marian vision... how is concept of afterlife and more valid then those?
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"