(May 29, 2022 at 7:14 am)Belacqua Wrote: I'm perfectly willing to tell someone when he's begging the question, but I don't recall a time when it's ever done any good. If they're willing to commit such a blatant fallacy, they're deeply committed to their metaphysical belief, and can't imagine not affirming the consequent.
Then how do you choose to believe in stuff without any evidence? Or do you believe in everything like faeries, Elvis being alive, and gnomes because, according to you, seeking scientific evidence is a blatant fallacy?
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"
