RE: Why does science always upstage God?
July 25, 2022 at 7:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2022 at 7:40 am by Fake Messiah.)
Billy Bob, considering that you believe in the claims from the Bible about how the wizard created the universe and humans in six days, 6000 years ago, do you also believe that Earth is flat as the Bible describes it?
![[Image: Flatso.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/gk2CZrTm/Flatso.png)
But the difference between belief in Santa and God is that people are indoctrinated into believing in God, which means that they are not allowed not to believe or ever doubt the existence of God or they'll get punished by damnation.
That's why you have people saying that they'll believe in God no matter what the evidence says and invent ad hoc excuses like that God is beyond the evidence, logic, science, reality, this plane of existence, etc.
(July 25, 2022 at 2:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 25, 2022 at 12:53 am)Lek Wrote: Why should I stop believing In God because science explains things about our world? Is not being able to explain things the reason all theists believe in God? You say "See we proved it's thunder, not evil spirits" and so I'm supposed to stop believing in God?
When you found out that it was your parents who arranged all those gifts on Christmas morning, did you carry on believing in Santa Claus?
Boru
But the difference between belief in Santa and God is that people are indoctrinated into believing in God, which means that they are not allowed not to believe or ever doubt the existence of God or they'll get punished by damnation.
That's why you have people saying that they'll believe in God no matter what the evidence says and invent ad hoc excuses like that God is beyond the evidence, logic, science, reality, this plane of existence, etc.
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"
