RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
July 8, 2023 at 12:01 pm
So when people are nice that proves god, but when they go to crusades, have slaves, burn people as heretics, do holocausts because they think it is moral then it doesn't prove god.
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"