(September 28, 2020 at 12:50 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Look, he was great in Zombieland, but why would we lean on his knowledge?
I don't really know where I'm going with this, because I agree with the words, I just hate the fact that we listen to famous people whose disciplines have nothing to do with critical thinking or religious studies.
What would Russel Brand think?!
Because it doesn't take much to debunk religion. You can debunk it in one joke, in few meaningful sentences, in a comic strip.
That's why Woody is more famous than William Lane Craig. Weed smoking Woody accomplished more in life and has more wisdom, like he doesn't go around being dishonest and telling people they can't have sex before marriage and if they are gay - which is something that WLC's life comes down to.
And also that's where the logical fallacies come in, like "It's just a cartoon" or "he smoked weed" and so on.
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"
