RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
September 18, 2021 at 1:38 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2021 at 1:39 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(September 18, 2021 at 1:30 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: I think I explained enough already why an eternal past is impossible. Again, very simply, an eternal past takes eternity, and since eternity never elapses, we never get to a present moment. This can't be simpler.
That's not true. Centers of black holes are also eternities (there is no time inside them), and yet, with time, they change and disappear / turn into something else - without any God intervening.
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"