The priest says that people today are obsessed with science but science has no comments on love and friendship which leaves people messed up.
And we all know Christianity's unprofound comment on love and friendship: If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26
But science has a lot to say about love and friendship. Doctors do recommend people to be in love and have plenty of sex as good for their health. Similar with the friendship. In 2023, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a report saying that loneliness has ill effects that are comparable to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day - meaning that he recommends people to have friends. So that priest is very uninformed on what science says.
And we all know Christianity's unprofound comment on love and friendship: If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26
But science has a lot to say about love and friendship. Doctors do recommend people to be in love and have plenty of sex as good for their health. Similar with the friendship. In 2023, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a report saying that loneliness has ill effects that are comparable to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day - meaning that he recommends people to have friends. So that priest is very uninformed on what science says.
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"