RE: Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism
June 20, 2023 at 5:35 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2023 at 5:36 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 20, 2023 at 4:44 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Popes repeatedly spoke against it, as the above shows.
Popes spoke against slavery while having slaves, that is hypocrisy. Especially since Pope Nicholas V started slave trade from Africa - one of the many things that you must ignore to remain a Christian.
(June 20, 2023 at 4:44 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: You still haven't show me any Atheists leading the charge to Abolish Slavery. Quite telling.
That is because deists abolished slavery. Christianity was long abandoned among intellectuals in the western world and replaced with deism:
Quote:Belief in God based on reason rather than revelation or the teaching of any specific religion is known as deism. The word originated in England in the early 17th century as a rejection of orthodox Christianity. Deists asserted that reason could find evidence of God in nature and that God had created the world and then left it to operate under the natural laws devised by God. By the late 18th century, deism was the dominant religious attitude among Europe’s educated classes; it was accepted by many upper-class Americans of the same era, including the first three US presidents.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictiona...ristianity
And deism is very close to being agnosticism.
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"
