Don't you just love when you get into a conversation with a religious person who says something so stupid that you just stand stupefied by stupidity?
Someone told me that God exists because nature is perfect. So I told him that nature wants 5 of his 7 kids dead, as well as him dead by the age of 50, and anything additional is due to science and technology. To which he replied that nature is cruel which makes it perfect.
Someone told me that God exists because nature is perfect. So I told him that nature wants 5 of his 7 kids dead, as well as him dead by the age of 50, and anything additional is due to science and technology. To which he replied that nature is cruel which makes it perfect.
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"