RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
November 18, 2022 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2022 at 10:47 am by Fake Messiah.)
The main claim of this topic is that atheism leads to a psychotic breakdown, but the problem is that the alternative (believing that a man flew on a donkey and split the moon) sounds like an actual psychotic breakdown which its author demonstrated many times, and therefore demonstrated what is an actual failure here.
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"
