(February 2, 2022 at 5:08 am)GrandizerII Wrote: Either you accept the possibility of a maximally great being or you don't. If you do, the argument pretty much works. If you don't, then it's not going to be compelling to you.
Geez, if you accept an all-powerful magical being, then you don't need Axiom S5 or some other philosophical claptrap because it's all just window dressing for your magical thinking
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"
