(August 4, 2020 at 9:44 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Theology is the study of what God is and how it operates in the world. It is an academic subject. For Christians, it is based on some combination of logic (propositions derived from seeing the world) and revelation (propositions handed down by prophets, etc.)
Just like it is a case with Astrology. Although many people think astrology is meaningless mumbo-jumbo, it is not merely casting horoscopes but is in fact a science, as "astrology" means the study of the celestial bodies (astronomy) and their influences on each other and on life on Earth.
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"
