(May 10, 2025 at 5:16 am)Belacqua Wrote: These tend to shut down discussion.
Things that tend to shut down discussion is when you and Breezy realize that you don't have any evidence that God's exist so you enter a mode of behavior where you complain that everyone is mean and stupid because they can't realize that your non-existent evidence for god is actually evidence for god.
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"