RE: Happy Birthday, Hitch!
April 15, 2020 at 4:52 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2020 at 5:09 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 15, 2020 at 4:33 am)Belacqua Wrote: Fake,
I understand that criticism of Hitchens must be galling to you.
He is important to quite a few people's belief system -- what they believe about religion and its role in the world.
It may seem impolite for anyone to challenge another person's beliefs, but I think we have a duty to criticize feel-good rhetoric when it is flawed or unsupported by evidence.
Actually you just described yourself. Indeed, anyone with at least half a brain can see that heaven is like NK and you don't have to delve deep into the Bible to see Heaven is like NK. I mean, for instance, already some Christians said to me on this forum that I will be burning in Hell, now it's not because I killed someone or did some crimes but just because I criticize and don't accept Jesus (and you know who else doesn't like to be criticized and punishes his critics?). So you can't deny that everybody must think the same in Heaven (just like in NK), that they all must accept and worship Jesus as if he's Kim Yong Un because if you don't you don't get in and get tortured forever.
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"
