(September 12, 2019 at 12:19 am)Belaqua Wrote: As for who states that "only science can tell us anything about the human condition," you are right to call me out on that. It's not something that people are usually willing to say straight out, and I can't provide any links to people who say it.
Art gives us great look into human condition, like novels "Christian Nation: A Novel" by Frederic C. Rich and "Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.
(September 12, 2019 at 12:19 am)Belaqua Wrote:(September 11, 2019 at 8:33 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'
This is the opposite of what Christians say.
God of Christianity is very small, apart from the fact that God in the Bible favours only one small group of people in one small part of the world there is also a notion that people shouldn't bother with this world and instead care for some other made-up world.
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"
