(August 27, 2021 at 10:51 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(August 27, 2021 at 10:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Isn't it strange, especially in this conversation, to assume that? Do you have an example - you might find that the people here agree with your valuations of many things.If you agree that religion makes people happy, more often than not, how come you aren't religious?
Probably for the same reason that alcohol makes people happy but that doesn't mean he wants to become an alcoholic.
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"
