RE: If there is a God(s) it/they clearly don't want us to believe in them, no?
April 4, 2020 at 1:48 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2020 at 1:50 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(April 4, 2020 at 10:16 am)Editz Wrote: What with the whole yawning, gaping, cavernous absence of ANY actual evidence they exist, together with cot deaths, congenital birth defects, malaria, sickle cell anemia, tsunamis and a thousand million other things which amount to the suffering of (relative, at least) innocents.
That's why you have confirmation bias to "explain" these kind of things. Like someone wants to believe in a good God and yet there's a girl suffering from a horrible disease and if she gets healed it is seen as a "miracle from God", but if she dies in great pain then it is "God testing our faith" - so that God turns out to be good whether the child lives or dies. Instead of following the logic that tells you there is no God, or at least a good one.
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"
