(September 22, 2020 at 11:20 am)tackattack Wrote: @The Grand Nudger @Fake Messiah @Sal - I have no problems disbelieving in fairies and unicorn, not from their lack of physical-ness, but because I haven't experienced them. If I woke up tomorrow and (without psycho-reactive drugs) started seeing faeries floating around or unicorns galloping, I would have to seriously rethink my beliefs on faeries and unicorns. Faith IS mundane, and that's the point, we all use it day-to-day, unless you're defining it as "religious faith" or "blind faith", which some people here are.
Just as atheist say they believe in one less God than I do, I just have faith in one more thing than they do.
How does this make any sense? It's supposed to be a reply to my post that your faith is like the Muslim faith in Muhammad being the last prophet, and you are talking that you don't believe in faeries because you don't see them but you would believe in them if you saw them.
So are you saying that you see angels and Jesus and that's why you believe in Christian mythology?
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"