(July 23, 2021 at 11:13 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I wanna give him the benefit of the doubt, but he lets me down time and again with shit like this.
There is an amusing factor about WLC because he is an intellectual midget, and yet his ego knows no bounds. He fancies himself as Stephen Hawking of theology, but, in reality, he is a walking parody of academia and therefore a clown who is not aware he is a clown. So that makes him funny as those (for the lack of better expression) midgets aristocracy kept in castles to amuse themselves.
Here's another example
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"
