(May 2, 2023 at 7:43 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Yeah, thread's gone to hell anyway.
It could not have gone to a nonexisting place. Which reminds me that faith becomes a mental aberration when it strays out of the realm of the possible (an idea for which there is no supportive OR refutative evidence) and into the realm of delusion (a fixed false belief held rigidly in the face of clear evidence of its falsity).
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"
