(August 27, 2021 at 10:32 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(August 27, 2021 at 10:30 pm)Foxaire Wrote: If that were true, you wouldn't be capable of stating with certainty that your god is in any way good.God made me a happy person. That's good enough for me.
Too bad he didn't make the Taliban and ISIS happy persons.
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"
