So Ten is making an argument that if there was evidence for God then God would be part of science and not part of religion. Same with souls, karma, reincarnation, thetan levels, etc.
And I agree with that.
And what he is also saying is that that other stuff that falls out of the domain of science has no practical use. Which also seems correct. And people who are defending the supposed usefulness of this nonscientific things like religion and pseudoscience, do it with logical fallacies.
And I agree with that.
And what he is also saying is that that other stuff that falls out of the domain of science has no practical use. Which also seems correct. And people who are defending the supposed usefulness of this nonscientific things like religion and pseudoscience, do it with logical fallacies.
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"
