(March 6, 2020 at 12:24 pm)unityconversation Wrote: Can animals even be "optimistic?" I've never known an animal to be that. I know that animals can be fond of someone, but I don't know about optimism. But I don't know I could be wrong.
The definition optimistic is: hopeful and confident about the future.
How can an animal show that it is "hopeful and confident about the future" so the human being can know?
Yeah, if you don't know something why should you research it? Especially since it can show that you are wrong
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"
