(September 4, 2018 at 10:58 am)MysticKnight Wrote: They claim they know exactly what God would or would not be, and then because of the design and situation we are, they use that to deny him. I will make a thread with ample evidence of this.
Actually nobody - not theists or atheists - knows how to define gods in the first place. What are they? The question could hardly be any simpler, but the answer is strangely elusive. Do you know? I'm not sure I do. People have been so enthralled with gods and religions for so long, many willing to kill and die for them, that this question ought to be considered among the most important of all, yet most people sail right by it and instead obsess over secondary issues such as which gods exist, how we should worship, which book gets it right, and how the gods mean for us to behave.
What makes a god? Are they all supernatural? Are they all immortal? Can all of them fly, or only some? Can they walk through walls? Can they read our thoughts? Do they know the future? Can a god have mental and physical frailties? Can a human become a god? Can a god become a human? What is it that makes someone or something a god in our eyes? What is a god?!
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"
