(June 21, 2018 at 11:08 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(June 21, 2018 at 10:37 am)Drich Wrote: the only reason your don't go to heaven is because you do not want to go...
That's pretty much the bottom line. For some, not all, some, they just don't want God to exist because that would mean there is a moral authority higher than themselves to which they would be accountable.
Or it's the same as you refusing to reach Nirvana because you think it's made up stupid shit that has no basis in reality.
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"
