(October 7, 2019 at 7:47 pm)Belaqua Wrote: If a sola scriptura literalist reading of the Bible indicates that prayers today for a Mercedes Benz will definitely result in getting a Mercedes Benz, then that's obviously stupid.
Way to go changing the subject. We were talking about sick people and dying children but you, of course, can't deal with that so you changed it to asking for Mercedes Benz.
(October 7, 2019 at 7:47 pm)Belaqua Wrote: Christians who think stupidly are stupid.
People who say that all religious people think at exactly the same level as the stupidest ones are bigots.
The bigot is the one who thinks that some Christian denominations are better than other - like you. You just called Catholics stupid (they're the ones going to Lourdes) and the majority of Christians are Catholics.
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"
