(July 20, 2020 at 8:05 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Honestly some of the books to read for a beginning atheist should also include books written by religious thinkers regardless of whether you agree with them or not.
But thinkers from what religion? Maybe L Ron Hubbard or is it the religion that you consider to be the right one?
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"
