I do remember reading some of this book and I guess the most interesting part in it, that is not so much discussed in other "atheist" books, is how this God today that Bible non-literalist Christians worship is actually not God of Christianity but God of Agnosticism - you know when they put God in another dimension/ at the beginning of time/ another galaxy.
And indeed, when you think about it in the Bible it is described that Heaven consists of seven layers and that God is on the seventh one. But, of course, with time people discovered that was not the case and Christians lapsed into agnosticism trying desperately to compensate with science while looking for new home for their God.
And indeed, when you think about it in the Bible it is described that Heaven consists of seven layers and that God is on the seventh one. But, of course, with time people discovered that was not the case and Christians lapsed into agnosticism trying desperately to compensate with science while looking for new home for their God.
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"
