RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
November 20, 2022 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2022 at 11:19 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 20, 2022 at 11:02 am)werenothereyet Wrote: By contrast, being an atheist, or more generally not adhering to some form of "hero system", a recurrent concept in The Denial of Death, combined with being fully aware of death or, rather, the finality of death, this is a sure fire way for a descent into darkness. This is, by the way, not my claim, but the main result that Ernest Becker defended on the basis of centuries of scholarly research in psychology.
You are one experiment in psychology, and you are insane, probably because of forcing yorself to believe in nonsense aka Buraq, splitting of the moon, jinns, etc. Seriously, think about getting help.
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"
