(November 20, 2017 at 4:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But the notion that religious instruction in and of itself makes it harder to cope with the world simply isn't borne out by the evidence. Richard Dawkins himself is pretty damned successful, and seems pretty well adjusted, despite his COE upbringing.
Dawkins is off the rails with this one.
Boru
Tell me Boru is this not child abuse?
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"
