(November 5, 2023 at 12:07 am)snowtracks Wrote:(November 3, 2023 at 12:44 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Nothingness seems to be a state of affairs that is necessarily brief. How long can it last, without time? And then there are virtual particles popping into existence all of the time, literally out of nothing.Virtual particles are an 'effect'. Ref: Universal causation
Has your idea of God been around for eternity, or just since the beginning of time?
And stories in the Bible are fairytales, like the six-day creation.
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"
