RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 10, 2019 at 5:01 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2019 at 5:02 am by Belacqua.)
(November 10, 2019 at 4:31 am)EgoDeath Wrote:(November 7, 2019 at 4:33 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Of course it's common for ideologues to say false things about history in order to sell their beliefs.
Christopher Hitchens, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and many others have done the same. They claim that Hypatia of Alexandria, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo were martyrs in the war of Christianity against science, when in fact this was not the case. By ignoring the facts, they recruit long-dead people as symbols for their cause.
https://historyforatheists.com
I find it interesting that you constantly feel the need to defend Christianity. For an atheist, youre an odd guy. Not necessarily a bad thing, but true nonetheless.
Its as if youre unable to partake in a conversation about the flaws of religion.
The flaws of religion are well documented on this forum. Some people seem to get positive joy from repeating the same flaws over and over. In fact I think some people would be satisfied if the whole web site consisted of a big red button that said "Religion Bad" on it, and you could come here and click on the button every day. Click really hard.
The shocking thing for me is that the so-called reasonable people are so committed to falsehoods as well. I think we all know that the for-profit media corporations are only interested in money and not quality. Yet I'm continually shocked by just how bad the "successful" products really are.
Sagan's Cosmos and Tyson's both repeated falsehoods about history. Stephen Greenblatt's book on Lucretius, The Swerve, was panned by real historians, yet given high-level awards by people whose ideology it flattered. Dawkins knows that his past books contain numerous errors, yet once again, in his newest one, he neglected to have it fact-checked by experts. The guy lives in Oxford, where there are any number of grad students who would do the job well and cheaply, within bicycling distance of his home. Yet he didn't bother. Hitchens' book is just embarrassingly full of errors -- not ideological things I disagree with, but facts about history that educated people know.
If we lambaste religious people while repeating our own favorite falsehoods, we are just hypocrites.
