RE: How do they know when God is angry?
August 2, 2022 at 7:43 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2022 at 7:43 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 1, 2022 at 9:42 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: To the OP: Simple. He's like the Hulk...He's always angry. John Edwards wrote a whole sermon about it.
Yeah, if someone believes in the existence of an omnipotent God and that he is good, then he or she must think that God is angry all the time because bad things are happening all the time. So the believer is faced with two options: either God does not exist or he is angry and sending those earthquakes and hurricanes as a punishment.
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"
