RE: Book reports
October 14, 2019 at 2:53 am
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2023 at 7:15 am by arewethereyet.)
Oh yeah, Christianity was so pro science that it needed a thousand years to re-discover Heliocentrism and then it found it too controversial.
Can you guess how many times this book mentions Index Librorum Prohibitorum? Yes, you guessed it: zero times. Yet another book whitewashing Christianity for gullible delusional religious zealots.
(October 14, 2019 at 1:03 am)Belaqua Wrote: I think you'll like this one. In a way, Charles Taylor's A Secular Age addresses the same thing in a more scholarly way. Holland has more historical anecdotes that make it easier to read.
If you don't mind a little piracy, the British edition is available now.
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Can you guess how many times this book mentions Index Librorum Prohibitorum? Yes, you guessed it: zero times. Yet another book whitewashing Christianity for gullible delusional religious zealots.
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"
