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An Essay about Atheism in Latin
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(September 1, 2019 at 6:33 pm)Belaqua Wrote:
(September 1, 2019 at 12:48 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: And isn't what the Dawkin's quote says an obvious truth?

My Latin is next to non-existent. (I meant to say that in the past, in general, when Dawkins talks about theology he makes a lot of mistakes.)

Does the quote translate to something like: "What theology says is not clear, and when it's clear it's false"?

That's a very big claim. Does it mean to include ALL of theology? Is it true, by definition, that no statement in the field of theology can be both clear and true?

Well, approximately. It's supposed to say: "Theology has never said anything, that is not obvious, and that isn't false." (Though I don't know if I translated that correctly.)
Perhaps, if there is some ambiguity (and I don't think that there is, especially in the context in which Dawkins said it), it would be a good thing to paraphrase that as "Theology has never said anything that is neither obvious nor false.", and translate that with some even more complicated grammatical structure involving "neque" and subjunctives.
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(September 2, 2019 at 2:50 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Somebody tried to respond to me on a Latin forum. If you ask me, the response is rather ridiculous, you can see it, along with my response to his arguments, here.

I like those things where you take English and translate it to another language and then back into English. 

This is what I get when, as a non-Latin user, I retranslate the last post in that thread:

Quote: Can the powerful rock is so serious (not light) do it so that he would not be able to move?

I love the image of a very serious rock. Thinking so seriously about things that he can't move. 

The Surrealists lived too soon! Google translate and random remote control use would make their jobs easy.
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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"
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(September 1, 2019 at 3:36 am)Belaqua Wrote: I think it's great you could write that in Latin. I wish I could do as much.

If the content is to be as important as the language, though, I think you'll have to rise above the level of quoting Dawkins. He's not someone who can be taken seriously on the topic of theology.

Says a random on the internet about an accomplished, respected intellectual and author of several books including the best-seller The God Delusion.

The arrogance is astounding. What have you accomplished in the real world Bel? Besides pretending to be an expert on the internet?

Holy fuck you're insane.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
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