You know reading posts from religious people on this forum makes me realize that they are more and more pushing God further away to the times before universe as we know it existed, to another dimensions and overall this supposedly omnipotent God is more like a very passive force. In other words Christians are retreating into the unknowable god of agnosticism. Scratch the surface of a Christian and you will find an agnostic. The Christian God is simply the agnostic god with window dressing.
Christians are operating from a conceptual vacuum, they are defending the rationally indefensible; they cannot even specify what it is that they believe in. Or, in more blunt terms, the Christian, when he asserts that "God exists," simply does not know what he is talking about. And neither does anyone else.
Christians are operating from a conceptual vacuum, they are defending the rationally indefensible; they cannot even specify what it is that they believe in. Or, in more blunt terms, the Christian, when he asserts that "God exists," simply does not know what he is talking about. And neither does anyone else.
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"
