RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 4, 2023 at 12:02 pm
(July 4, 2023 at 11:10 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: St. Augustine and St. Thomas call the Moral Law of Nature implanted within us.
Especially when they concluded that heretics should be tortured and killed. In other words, listening to Augustine and Aquinas talk about morality is no different than listening Hitler talk about morality.
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"
