RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 16, 2022 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2022 at 11:52 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 16, 2022 at 10:41 am)Angrboda Wrote: Such contortions of logic are the end result of you mixing your ideological views on science (in the sense of being unshakeable beliefs) with the less problematic ideological views of science in which it, as an idea about ideal processes of discovery aimed at revealing truth, is merely a tool embraced by people generally.
And what exactly is my ideology? That I rely on evidence?
GrandizerII Wrote:People, namely scientists, conduct science. Science does not conduct itself.
Scientists, being people, can sometimes fail at using logic properly to evaluate results. They can also end up doing very shoddy research.
Sure, scientist can make a mistake and be biased in his research, but that is where many other scientists come in and test his claims and make scientific consensus, so that in the end science is objective.
And if someone here is claiming that science (scientific method) is not the only thing, or not sufficient, to come to the truth, then what (else) is there? Theology? Astrology? Marxism?
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"
