RE: When is a Religious Belief Delusional?
September 5, 2018 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2018 at 10:51 am by Fake Messiah.)
Quote:Learn to read what people write and not what you think they wrote.
I did not say anything about the Declaration of Independence explicitly identifying the United States as a Christian nation. I said that in Western civilization belief that in human equality arose out of a Judeo-Christian culture and intellectual tradition. That is indisputable.
Except that's total nonsense. When did Christians ever threat other people as equals? In most of Christian denominations women still can't be clergy because they are considered inferior. Not to mention persecution of Jews trough the centuries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
In fact because Jews were persecuted by Christians into New World it created this aspiration to create place where people are not persecuted because of their religion.
Also there is this word "egalitarianism" that conservative Christians throw around, especially those enamored with Ayn Rand, like it's this "idiotic idea where everybody is equal when that is impossible".
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"