RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 13, 2023 at 4:05 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2023 at 4:05 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 13, 2023 at 4:01 am)GrandizerII Wrote:(August 13, 2023 at 2:47 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Not agreeable. It looks like you are making soundbites. What you are saying about Earth being in a different place is like saying that if I had the sock that is in my left leg on my right leg the universe would be different.
Um, yes, exactly. Different arrangements of particles => a different universe.
Pretty logical to me. But since you don't agree, walk me through your reasoning.
Your examples are too trivial and thus are your arguments.
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"
