RE: Why not deism?
September 24, 2019 at 11:17 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2019 at 11:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
The truth is that there is a lot of deism, especially when a religious person is losing an argument. Like when a Christian claims that there is evidence that God exists because most of the people believe in God, and yet, the reality is that 70% of all people in the world don't believe that Jesus Christ is a God. Majority of people worships cows and stones, but to that Christian at the moment that doesn't matter because he's a deist at the moment and "as long as someone believes in something" it proves his point and his point is nothing more than an ad hoc fallacy.
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"
