RE: If there was a 1st moment in time.
May 4, 2018 at 3:17 am
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2018 at 3:17 am by Fake Messiah.)
Even if there was a beginning of the universe done by some intelligent being, it tells us nothing in particular about this alleged god-being. There is certainly nothing about Christian theology in the argument; this god could exist but yet be the Muslim god or one of the Hindu gods or a Greek or Norse or Native American or any other god, or it could be an impersonal energy or the devil.
In fact it does not even insist that this god exists now but that it existed at the beginning.
In fact it does not even insist that this god exists now but that it existed at the beginning.
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"
