You can listen to the Christian radio where every 10 seconds you're hearing someone tell you they know exactly what god wants, what he thinks, what he feels about all the various minutia of day to day life.
I heard one woman talking about how she's trying to have better communications with her teenage daughter. She said she started to say something one day about her daughter's acne, but then stopped herself and thought better of it. Except it wasn't her own cognitive function that stopped her, of course not, it was the lord. She knew it was the lord apparently because they're very deeply connected and he's just looking out for her left and right.
And you hear these kind of stories non-stop where Lord is helping people consider their words, find their keys, push out that difficult dookie. I mean, no wonder he doesn't have time to help all those starving children.
I heard one woman talking about how she's trying to have better communications with her teenage daughter. She said she started to say something one day about her daughter's acne, but then stopped herself and thought better of it. Except it wasn't her own cognitive function that stopped her, of course not, it was the lord. She knew it was the lord apparently because they're very deeply connected and he's just looking out for her left and right.
And you hear these kind of stories non-stop where Lord is helping people consider their words, find their keys, push out that difficult dookie. I mean, no wonder he doesn't have time to help all those starving children.
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"
