RE: Search for Causes
January 3, 2020 at 2:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2020 at 2:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 3, 2020 at 1:48 am)Lek Wrote: The questions I'm asking and the points I'm making are not repetitions of the "same old" things.
That's because you are making old, tired, debunked arguments. Like let's say your argument on miraculous healings - it has been proven rather opposite. But nevertheless let's put that on the side for a moment: how would you prove some healing was by God? There probably isn't a way because God is not defined. Until you know what God is, how he does stuff you can't say he did something. I mean if something is unexplained does it automatically mean that God did it? And usually something is explainable but some people insist it's not because they want it to be from God.
Or maybe God is guiding doctors hands through surgery and massaging their brains when they make diagnosis - who knows? And what God would that be? Jesus who believed demons and evil eye cause sickness?
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"