Talk about recurring characters in this thread; here's a short video of William Lane Craig telling the story of how he converted an atheist woman to Christianity. According to the story, he met a woman in a communist country who was a physicist and an atheist, and as a result, she had "blackness in her heart." But when she learned that Craig is a Christian apologist, she asked to read one of his Kalam papers, and after reading it, she converted to Christianity.
Not only did she accept Jesus, but she immediately threw away all of the pills and vodka she was taking 24 hours a day just to survive because all of the darkness in her heart had vanished, and she became a happy and well-adjusted Christian like Craig, who believes God sent HIV to punish homosexuals for not remaining celibate.
Not only did she accept Jesus, but she immediately threw away all of the pills and vodka she was taking 24 hours a day just to survive because all of the darkness in her heart had vanished, and she became a happy and well-adjusted Christian like Craig, who believes God sent HIV to punish homosexuals for not remaining celibate.
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"
