RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God
October 29, 2016 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2016 at 1:33 am by Fake Messiah.)
(October 28, 2016 at 10:35 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Why pray? God is all seeing and all knowing, so he must know what you want to pray about before you do it, why waste his time telling him thinks he already knows?
To demean yourself. I mean if you believe you finished school or got a job or managed to pay the mortgage because God helped you, that can only work if you think of yourself as a pathetic individual that even dead white males (such as saints) have more competency then you do. Therefore you perpetually feel owing to Church or the temple.
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"
