(December 30, 2024 at 5:25 am)Belacqua Wrote: It isn't the first time that the New Atheist types are guilty of pushing the thinking appropriate to science onto non-scientific questions. Ethics, metaphysics, and subjective states of being are not in their realm of expertise.
If you think that ethics is beyond someone's realm just because he is an atheist, then you don't know what ethics is.
The other thing is that it's the atheists who are tolerant of trans people, and not Christians or Muslims or Hindus. So your claim of "new atheism" non tolerance of trans people is ridiculous.
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"
