(August 28, 2023 at 2:41 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: As anyone who ever took Bible 101 knows, a "miracle" is something which is a completely natural event, in which a believer sees "the hand of their god working", and a non-believer sees no such action, and which can be explained by natural forces. A "miracle" is THE LAST possibly probable explanation, AFTER all other explanations are ruled out.
Is this sarcasm? Who would explain a talking donkey or thousands of dead people rising from the grave with natural forces?
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"
