RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 16, 2022 at 10:02 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2022 at 10:03 am by Fake Messiah.)
As Steven Novella said "There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?"
Now, some people, like communists, nazis, or some religions, do mix ideology with science, but then it's not science anymore, but pseudoscience. And that's why ideologies and religions are usually against science because science looks at the evidence to reach a conclusion, unlike ideology and religion which start with the conclusion and then dismiss the evidence that proves them wrong.
Now, some people, like communists, nazis, or some religions, do mix ideology with science, but then it's not science anymore, but pseudoscience. And that's why ideologies and religions are usually against science because science looks at the evidence to reach a conclusion, unlike ideology and religion which start with the conclusion and then dismiss the evidence that proves them wrong.
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"
