RE: Why you can't find God
September 19, 2022 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2022 at 1:05 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(September 10, 2022 at 12:06 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: For instance, say there is someone who claims the Earth is 65 billion years old. Someone else asserts that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. Both have studied the materials, have actually done the testing, and are even similarly educated. Whom do you believe, without conducting the experiments yourself?
That's easy. I believe those who can back up their claims with evidence. Usually, people who claim that Earth is 4 billion years old have evidence, while those who claim it's 6000 years old don't.
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"
