RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 24, 2021 at 3:42 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2021 at 3:43 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 24, 2021 at 3:30 am)Ahriman Wrote: I would beg to differ. What about when you're stopped at a red light, waiting for the light to turn green? You don't know the light will turn green. You expect the light to turn green, but you don't know the light will turn green. There might very well be some kind of malfunction that makes it so the light is stuck on red for hours and hours. You take the light turning green, in a timely fashion, on faith.
He hopes the light will turn green, but it's always possible it doesn't. That’s hope, that's not faith. And if it doesn't turn green he'll improvise which will likely work because of his history with improvising in these kinds of situations. So he doesn’t need faith. Faith isn’t required at all.
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"
