(February 20, 2021 at 2:40 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I think cognitive scientists, biologists, and philosophers are in a better position to study these questions.
So you are avoiding the arguments by concentrating on where the arguments came from - it's called the Genetic fallacy.
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"