RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)
November 9, 2018 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2018 at 9:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 9, 2018 at 12:04 am)Whateverist Wrote: Discussions on religious topics get highly repetitive and nearly always involve low lying fruit. We don't get many (any?) interesting theist ideas expressed because - who would bother to try under these conditions?
I do agree that religious topics get too repetitive but I really wonder do theists have any interesting ideas anymore? I think I heard all the arguments and that's why religious topics get repetitive. I mean I watched some "God's Not Dead" movies, I heard William Lane Craig and those are rehashing and forcing the same old things. The Cosmic Argument, The Argument From Beauty, The Nature Is Too Complicated Argument etc. plus there are theists here that think how slavery is a good thing, that gay people are sick, six day creation, that women should cover their heads - but yeah don't be rude to them because they may have some interesting ideas they are afraid to express.
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"