(May 13, 2017 at 2:29 pm)Chad32 Wrote: If the church is full of sin, yet still exists, then it just means there is no god, or their god is also corrupt and evil.
*DUH* Welcome to the world of endless rationalization. If you believe something is god and that god is above everything, then you'll do anything to rationalize his goodness and existence no matter what, because he is even above the truth. So how can truth hurt him since he is above it? You know he is in "another dimension".
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"
