(August 3, 2019 at 8:20 pm)Belaqua Wrote: He is a brilliant man! And he has the gift of bringing out the best in people during conversation -- something I lack.
Yeah you do lack the knowledge and ability to communicate because you read garbage books, like David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions
I mean look at some garbage this schmuck brainwashed you
Quote:Conditions in the world of print have never before been so propitious for sanctimonious tirades against religion, or (more narrowly) monotheism, or (more specifically) Christianity, or (more precisely) Roman Catholicism.
Oh, imagine that this schmuck sees Roman Catholicism under attack. Criticizing priests for demonizing gays and researching crimes of Catholic Church this guy sees as "sanctimonious tirades".
Then he continues
Quote:Never before have the presses or the press been so hospitable to journalists, biologists, minor philosophers, amateur moralists proudly brandishing their baccalaureates, novelists, and (most indispensable of all) film actors eager to denounce the savagery of faith
Biologists are the problem? But I thought Chruch was so pro-science - go figure. "Amateur moralists"? And who are professional moralists? Let me guess: the pope, bishops, priests.
Quote:The God Delusion, an energetic attack on all religious belief, has just been released by Richard Dawkins, the zoologist and tireless tractarian, who—despite his embarrassing incapacity for philosophical reasoning—never fails to entrance his eager readers with his rhetorical recklessness.
Awww, this schmuck steeps down to ad hominem attacks. If the book is so "bad" then he could have easily debunk it and not go on ad hominem tirade.
Quote:The journalist Christopher Hitchens, whose talent for intellectual caricature somewhat exceeds his mastery of consecutive logic, has just issued God Is Not Great,
What? Even more ad hominem attacks?!!
Quote:Over the past few years, Sam Harris’s extravagantly callow attack on all religious belief, The End of Faith, has enjoyed robust sales and the earnest praise of sympathetic reviewers.
Ad hominem fallacies. Needless to say religious people will embrace any book as proof for their God and that atheists are evil even if the book has nothing more than "Blah, blah blah God"
Quote:atheism that consists entirely in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance,
Projecting.
Quote:In its early centuries, the church earned the enmity of genuinely imaginative and civilized critics, such as Celsus and Porphyry, who held the amiable belief that they should make some effort to acquaint themselves with the object of their critique.
Yeah, the church got so "acquaint" with Celsus works that Christian censors burned all copies of that "civilized critic's" Celsus' books meaning that Church is not civilized. Now how is afloat on oceans of historical ignorance? - David Bentley Hart.
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"