(September 21, 2020 at 3:26 pm)tackattack Wrote: I also reason that from what I know of the definition of the Christian God is and my experience trusting in God that my life is better because of it. You're being disingenuous asking for physical evidence of the spiritual. Just because your materialist view adds requirements to your definition of faith doesn't mean I have the same hang ups.
Hey man, don't blame the atheists. You have the same "materialistic" stance towards Muslims who have faith that Muhammad is the last prophet, as well as when Buddhists claim that Dalai Lama reincarnates.
Your "reason" and experience is just a delusion. Just as when Laura Prepon says she feels much better going through Scientology rites.
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"