RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
March 18, 2022 at 4:53 pm
(March 18, 2022 at 4:35 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: What's barbarian about condemning a mass murderer or a serial killer to eternal torment ?
Nobody deserves to be tormented no matter what they did, let alone for infinity. There is no value in torturing someone unless you are a sadist who gets off on torture.
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"
