RE: Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.
April 27, 2021 at 12:23 am
(April 26, 2021 at 9:22 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The church's position was that there was no problem discussing heliocentricity, but that it wasn't yet proved. They were correct at the time.
They weren't correct at the time because Galileo had the evidence but Church refused to look at it.
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"
