(April 4, 2024 at 10:46 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I think it's interesting to see that Dawkins has become somewhat less one-"tract" in his thinking. I'm curious to see where he goes with this.
Like, where do you think it would go?
Dawkins was always culturally Christian (Anglican) as he regularly congratulates people on Christmas every year, and attends the church to sing Christmas songs.
I guess this is how it is mostly in England, that they are mostly cultural Christians. Like in the movie "Bridget Jones's Diary 3" when they are in the church and nobody cares what is going on, and they yell the word 'fuck'.
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"
