(September 2, 2021 at 12:50 am)FortyTwo Wrote: Why is your view of the universe, no, of the Cosmos correct?
Because it is based on observation by people who study nature for many years and generations, and not what some anonymous ancient writer claimed to have heard spirits telling him, after which another group of people had a meeting where they also claimed to be led by spirits and chose his version of cosmos out of other conflicting ones written by other guys who claimed to be led by spirits - like it is with the cosmology in the Bible and the Quran.
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"
