(January 11, 2023 at 12:59 am)Jehanne Wrote: God, as theists profess, cannot do things that are logically impossible, and, so, God must share some attributes with Us, His Creation, or so the arguments go.
Theists constantly claim that god is logical but when logic shows he is not possible, then they say that god is beyond logic or just illogical sometimes. So you get special pleading.
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"
