(May 11, 2025 at 6:03 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(May 11, 2025 at 5:45 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You don’t think workaday Christians believe that God ‘created the universe and everything in it, including us’?
Framing matters. Imagine walking into a church and the pastor says let's pray to the "super-human, supernatural intelligence."
I don't have to imagine it. I just look at the church walls.
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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"
