RE: Why won't God heal amputees?
June 4, 2020 at 7:37 am
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2020 at 7:38 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 4, 2020 at 7:15 am)WinterHold Wrote:(June 4, 2020 at 6:34 am)Belacqua Wrote: Clearly God has to balance out what would do the most good in the world.
On the one hand, healing amputees would give great joy to a few people.
On the other hand, it would take away one of the Internet atheists' greatest pleasures -- asking every few days why God doesn't heal amputees.
Good explanation
No it's not. His explanation is the usual theist cop-out: "You're asking too many questions."
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"
