RE: I received a letter from a theist, need a good reply
March 13, 2022 at 9:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2022 at 9:21 am by Fake Messiah.)
Maybe you could just say: Listen, I don't want to believe in nonsense and I also don't want to be isolated from the rest of the world.
You also could have said: "Don't pray for me but accept me as I am."
(March 13, 2022 at 9:13 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: She wrote to me again about six months later, saying that I was on her list of people she's praying for.
You also could have said: "Don't pray for me but accept me as I am."
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"
