RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 4, 2023 at 12:57 am
(July 4, 2023 at 12:25 am)Belacqua Wrote: As always, to associate this First Cause with the Christian God requires many other arguments, which aren't addressed in the Five Ways.
So a Christian theologian, Aquinas, is not associating First Cause with the Christian God, but is arguing for naturalism. Now that's bullshit.
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"
