RE: God is so quiet
February 4, 2018 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2018 at 4:45 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Wait wait wait! Guys you got sidetracked. Food is not the issue here. It's about where LR gets his knowledge of what god wants him to do and it turns out that he reads in newspapers to see what "scientists say" and then if they say "don't eat this" or "don't have sex with that" he doesn't so that god doesn't send a new disease or earthquake or some other punishment.
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"