(March 26, 2020 at 7:18 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(March 26, 2020 at 7:00 pm)ignoramus Wrote: That is probably the most disingenuous thing I've ever read.
It's paradoxical.
If you let proof get in the way of your beliefs, then you don't have faith in your "god".
Please stop wasting our time with fallacies.
Next!
Where is your proof that would jeopordize my belief? I'm all ears. In any case, I guess we have two very distinct conceptions of belief.
Every time some religious person defends, or should I say explains, how some mistake and inconsistency in their holy book is not a mistake, always ends up looking like when Conan o'Brien explains how mistakes in his show are not actually mistakes and how you are the one who is making a mistake
One example:
In other words it's dishonest.
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"