Ah yes "If only they read up on it" --why didn't I think of that? Some time ago on some other forum some Christian was writing how evolution is false with clearly no knowledge of what evolution is, so I suggested that he at least reads a book about it to learn what it is and then perhaps criticize it, and I suggested "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne and his response was that Jerry Coyne is retarded.
So to them it's on a psychological level. They should rather talk to a shrink because they have been sort of hypnotized into being fearful towards it.
So to them it's on a psychological level. They should rather talk to a shrink because they have been sort of hypnotized into being fearful towards it.
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"
