(June 5, 2020 at 9:47 am)Grandizer Wrote:(June 5, 2020 at 8:40 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Don't believers expect God to do good with his superpowers?
Not necessarily. Deists, like their god, don't care. Then there are those theists of the metaphorical type.
I've been debating theists long enough to know that when they are retreating to Deism that they are losing the argument.
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"
