(December 3, 2023 at 3:21 am)Belacqua Wrote: A lot of atheists have only ever heard of an oversimplified, Sunday School version of Christian theology. To understand better the grownup's version of what you're rejecting, you can read Scholastic Metaphysics by Edward Feser and The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy by Christian Moevs.
Wait, but you said that you are not a Christian, so what exactly is the point of atheists reading these Christian philosophers that you recommend? So that we see that we are right because they did not even persuade you.
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"
