And it is entertaining how much "elusive" is a keyword which you will always hear when someone is trying to sell you a scam. I know it is "God of the gaps" after all, but it is somewhat entertaining how much people fall for it. For instance, I remember watching some pseudo-science documentary with Charlton Heston about how human civilization is billions of years old. They showed some artifacts that are supposedly evidence, but in the end, it came to how all the evidence will be revealed once Antarctica melts because "Antarctica is Atlantis", and a lot of evidence will be found around the Face on planet Mars.
The speech is always, "[Fill in the blank] exists but they are in the bottom of the ocean, behind you when you are not looking, on the Atlantis, in another dimension, on the edge of the universe, in the morning mist, in a very deep cave, etc."
The speech is always, "[Fill in the blank] exists but they are in the bottom of the ocean, behind you when you are not looking, on the Atlantis, in another dimension, on the edge of the universe, in the morning mist, in a very deep cave, etc."
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"