RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
March 2, 2018 at 4:07 am
Why don't I specifically prescribe to Christianity? Because it is wrong and always was wrong on so many accounts. Like the movement of planets, sexuality, contraception, gays, love, marriage, divorce, child upbringing, AIDS, medicine, abortion, food, reality and so on, it's so wrong and always has been wrong.
Now, I know that for lot of people that is not a deal breaker and they simply ignore it because look at some statistics with, for instance, Catholics - since they are the biggest Christian group. Catholic (and other Christian) women have abortions at the same rate as non-Catholic women; also overwhelming majority use birth control - presumably with Catholic men; support the use of condoms to prevent disease and HIV transmission; think abortion should be legal; believe premarital sex is morally acceptable.
Also Christianity is all about few people manipulating large amount of people. That's why some Christian divided into denomination, but it always come to same.
Now, I know that for lot of people that is not a deal breaker and they simply ignore it because look at some statistics with, for instance, Catholics - since they are the biggest Christian group. Catholic (and other Christian) women have abortions at the same rate as non-Catholic women; also overwhelming majority use birth control - presumably with Catholic men; support the use of condoms to prevent disease and HIV transmission; think abortion should be legal; believe premarital sex is morally acceptable.
Also Christianity is all about few people manipulating large amount of people. That's why some Christian divided into denomination, but it always come to same.
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"
