(May 31, 2017 at 12:18 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Maybe because the alternative is really really unpleasant :-)
Considering that alternative is not living in a totalitarian war zone with psychopath god where people are not treated fairly and the whole place will vanish, I think that alternative sounds more pleasant.
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"
