(March 23, 2021 at 1:54 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: I said that none of the objections to theism are conclusive, i.e. theism was never proven to be logically incoherent. [...] Since some people managed to do the latter, belief is more justified than non-belief
The problem with anyone ridiculing non-belief, including yourself, is that you are an atheist in all the gods except the one you believe in. So you are ridiculing yourself for not believing that Sai Baba is God, that Jesus is God, that Ganesha is God, etc.
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"
