RE: Evidence for Believing
September 19, 2019 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2019 at 12:45 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(September 19, 2019 at 12:20 pm)Lek Wrote: God existed as an immaterial being at that point and then "became" the universe. I'm relating this as I understand the pantheists' point of view to be.
Why immaterial? Maybe God was a computer in the past universe and then, as time passed, it advanced so much that when universe started collapsing it created a new universe - like the premise of Isaac Asimov's story "The Last Question". Now, of course, people can toy with those ideas but the problem is that taking it for granted quickly leads to giving money to religious organizations, bigotry, racism, holy wars...
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"
