(March 7, 2021 at 11:45 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Again, God's existence isn't dependent on his goodness. Perhaps you can argue the evilness of God in a separate thread. It's a bit unrelated to this one.
But you are arguing for intelligent design and no less by a perfect being, so if a design is not intelligent and is stupid in many ways, then it's not by the intelligent designer but by blind nature.
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"
