RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
November 16, 2022 at 8:23 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2022 at 8:26 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 14, 2022 at 6:43 pm)R00tKiT Wrote: The late Ernest Becker in his award winning book The denial of death, brilliantly expressed this idea : "when the awareness dawns that has always been blotted out by frenetic, ready-made activity, we see the transmutation of repression redistilled, so to speak, and the fear of death emerges in pure essence. This is why people have psychotic breaks when repression no longer works".
So a theist who opened a thread claiming that not believing in God will make you crazy has a psychotic break. Can't say that I am surprised.
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"
