(August 18, 2023 at 5:15 pm)Barry Wrote: The problem for humankind is that they don’t want to feel responsible to God, despite knowing in their hearts God exists.
What does this mean? How are people who don't believe in god irresponsible, but people who believe in god are responsible?
What is it that believers in god think that non-believers in god do that is so at the same time awful and great that they don't want to stop doing it to become responsible?
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"
