(February 8, 2020 at 12:55 am)ColdComfort Wrote: There is no monster under the bed but there is a hell. That's one way the analogy is false.
Except you don't have any evidence for hell, so you are false.
(February 8, 2020 at 12:55 am)ColdComfort Wrote: Are you willing to use the power of the state and child welfare laws to prevent parents from teaching their children the Christian faith. If so, we have a very serious political problem.
Again you use logical fallacies (what else can you do when you don't have evidence?) This time it's Appeal to Extremes.
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"
