RE: A problem with the word "atheist"
January 26, 2018 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2018 at 10:08 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 26, 2018 at 9:57 am)Alexmahone Wrote:(January 26, 2018 at 9:45 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Unless you are going to make a connection between these arguments and the two subjects.... this seems like a very poor bait and switch attempt. You can't just make a number of unrelated arguments for one thing, and the supersede them onto another without reason.
He's just saying that the evidence for both Santa and god is equally poor.
Exactly, Santa is also a being that you can't prove does not exist and yet RR and most of people on this forum (including theists) don't believe in him for the reasons I stated.
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"
