(July 24, 2023 at 5:39 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Will get back to the others later. But I want to show the mistake some are making.
(A): Atheism is True. There is no God.
(T): Theism is True. There is a God.
Believing that god does not exist is a reasonable belief, just like not believing that Nessie exist. If gods were real somebody would have come up with some evidence or at least a really good argument for them by now. After all, we have discovered three billion-year-old fossils and identified galaxies far beyond our own. Surely we would have found some trace of gods by now if any were there. But we haven't so I find myself believing in their nonexistence. This little belief is not my religion, however. I have none.
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"
