RE: History thread [split] from "New Rule - Promoting Terrorism"
July 5, 2018 at 3:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2018 at 3:21 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 22, 2018 at 10:46 am)Huggy74 Wrote: It's amazing that the ones justifying the nuclear bombing of innocents are the same ones speaking on how evil the bible is (which none of you think is real btw).
Hey people are flawed, petty, unjust, violent but God is supposed to be supreme and perfect, yet all he can do is resort to genocide. If he was so supreme he could have just said something smart or resort to some superior way to spread his message instead of infanticide, bloodthirst, cannibalism, ethnic cleansing, animal sacrifice and other genocides he is described of doing.
Now, using the atom bomb was a horrible thing but was it right or wrong? There were some that said Japan was on the brink of surrender and that bomb was unnecessary like Admiral William Daniel Leahy and apparently General MacArthur. If you ask me I think they should have gone with the idea that scientists from Los Alamos had and that was to demonstrate the bomb in front of Japanese officials. But like the saying goes "It's easy being a general after the battle."
Also, other Japanese cities were bombed much heaver (if you discount radiation) in tons of TNT, like Tokyo.
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"
