RE: Talking to mormons
April 11, 2020 at 7:24 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2020 at 7:25 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 11, 2020 at 7:03 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 11, 2020 at 4:03 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: ...meaning that when their husbands arrived in the afterlife they would be left without their wife.So there is a Heaven.
When you are talking to Christians you have to use their language, like when you're talking to a child for whom you want to discourage the use of blanket as a friend, you don't throw out the blanket out the window and say: "Deal with it." But you say "Blanket doesn't want to go to horse race today, it wants to stay home." And you make him or her leave the blanket for few hours and you increase that timespan with time until he or she doesn't need the blanket anymore.
That's why you can't approach a Christian and say everything in one breath, like "Underwear is not magical and you don't get your own planet when you die and Jesus didn't live in America and virgins really can't get pregnant and Jesus torture was an invention copied from Psalm 22..."
So you first say "It was not ok for Joseph to steal all those wives from people that were on their planets working on their farms." Let them see Joseph first fail in their own fantasy world and then explain them how magical underwear doesn't work and that nobody gets their planet when they die.
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"
