(March 11, 2019 at 2:35 am)Belaqua Wrote: to say that lots of religion is the cause of high infant mortality -- requires analysis and the application of some theory. So while simple observation may be enough to see A and B, determining the extent to which A is the cause of B is more than observation.
It's not blaming religion but seeing that religion/ God doesn't work.
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"
