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December 10, 2021 at 9:06 am
"I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of God, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all." (Douglas Adams)
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December 14, 2021 at 10:55 am
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December 14, 2021 at 12:04 pm
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December 14, 2021 at 3:08 pm
(December 9, 2021 at 11:47 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: "If God has spoken, why is the universe not convinced?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Maybe it wasn't listening.
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December 16, 2021 at 5:23 am
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December 18, 2021 at 6:52 am
“The Roman Church has never erred, nor will it err to all eternity, the Scriptures being witness thereof.” (Pope Gregory VII)
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December 18, 2021 at 7:09 am
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December 21, 2021 at 3:50 pm
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December 21, 2021 at 4:15 pm
(December 18, 2021 at 6:52 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: “The Roman Church has never erred, nor will it err to all eternity, the Scriptures being witness thereof.” (Pope Gregory VII)
Roman Church has never erred, nor will it err because there are, and always will be ad hoc excuses.
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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December 21, 2021 at 8:11 pm
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