RE: Where to go from here?
November 18, 2021 at 6:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2021 at 6:10 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 18, 2021 at 5:58 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Some well known atheists converted back to theism, heavy hitters in the philosophy of religion like Antony Flew were convinced by theistic arguments.
Flew did say that "Islam is best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism," and that Allah and Christian gods are "despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins", so maybe he was up to something.
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"
