RE: Benevolent Creator God?
October 6, 2021 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2021 at 5:45 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(October 6, 2021 at 4:40 pm)Ahriman Wrote: As a necessary disclaimer, I don't really care what it says in the Bible. God never does anything evil. He would rather do nothing at all, than do something evil.
Well, isn't doing nothing, when you obviously can stop evil, evil? Isn't there a sin of omission in Catholicism?
Like he can stop Catholic priests not to rape kids, but he does nothing.
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"