(August 5, 2019 at 3:37 am)Tom Fearnley Wrote: What do you guys think? It's my favourite argument to use against God.
The thing is that arguments rarely work on religious people. They only work if some religious person is genuinely misinformed but most of the time religious people want to believe in their own crap no matter what and their "arguments" are usually nothing more than "blah blah Jesus/ Allah/ Krishna". You can show them easily that they are misinformed and that their sources lie to them, but they just don't care because they believe in God and not facts and logic.
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"
