(September 14, 2021 at 11:46 am)Klorophyll Wrote: That's because a deity purportedly intervenes through rarely occuring miracles, and rarely occuring events can't also be repeatable or reproducible....
So God created the universe because Virgin Mary supposedly appeared on a toast, icons that weep, statues that bleed, Hindu statues that drink water, healings by John of God, stigmata, and similar.
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"
