Thus you don't march in rank and file with billions of Christians who (as true Christians) are creationists?
"Logical belief" is an oxymoron. Logics deals with mental activity, beliefs - with feelings.
belief
/bɪˈliːf/
noun
1.
an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof.
"his belief in extraterrestrial life"
2.
trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something).
"a belief in democratic politics"
I HAVE seen my brain. Do you happen to know what is MRT? Science has moved a little forward in those 10000 years after the Universe was created.
As I'm totally evil and don't easily take on faith what you say, could you please cite Bible where this or ANY number of spectators who saw Jesus after death is offered.
How wondrous it is that people never think this quote may refer to themselves, actually.
Stalin and Hitler never killed a single person in their lives. Does it make them innocent of millions deaths?
As for handing heretics to the state: I imagine what was the physical condition of those. They were ready to confess anything to put an end to the torture. Like in "1984".
And one more thing in "defense" of the church: was it a strange thing when a state punished a person not for a crime, but for a sin, which isn't the state's responsibility? A sin is a "crime" against CHURCH/RELIGION/FAITH and the state had NO GRIEVANCE against the alleged sinner. Instead of dealing with religious matters itself church absolved itself of all responsibility.
But what I like most is your attempts to whitewash church where you should have just said something like "mea culpa". Or you pass over in silence the charges which you can't address (like Bruno's burning at stake, mallus malleficarum and others). You seem to be more recalcitrant than the church itself - it at least is reasonable enough to admit bad calls it might have had: it apologized for Crusades (which you persist to glorify) and other iniquities, cannonized Joan of Arc (who had been found guilty of heresy) and did things which deserve respect.
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