RE: Atheists being asked about the existence of Jesus
January 8, 2019 at 4:55 am
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2019 at 4:56 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 7, 2019 at 8:19 am)Belaqua Wrote: No, I was thinking about your assertion that the reason America lacks a sane health insurance system is because there are a lot of Christians there. If you have some empirical evidence for this odd assertion, I'd be interested to hear it.
That's your assertion not mine. My guess is that you are referring to a convo I had with Angelina who said Christians make world better place and then mentioned healthcare in Japan and then I said that there are no Christians in Japan meaning that they already have a better ("wonderful") solution (world) than some Christian countries. That simply means that world can be (and often is) better without Christianity.
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"
