RE: The Sects of Atheism
November 7, 2021 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2021 at 3:29 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 7, 2021 at 2:57 pm)T.J. Wrote: I used to be a Christian and believe the same things you do, but after seeing all the little holes in my belief system and having people unable to fill in those holes with things that made sense I decided to become an atheist.
You were honest with yourself, while other Christians (and other theists) are not, so they hear some logical fallacies, come here with them, and insist that they must be true.
And there lies the question: where is the difference? Why are some people honest to themselves, while others are not? And if they are not, how can you ever prove them wrong when they obviously don't want to listen?
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"
