Has the Vatican contemplated the thousands of deaths it has caused by passing along lies such as these? How can they claim moral justification for such outrageous falsifications? They have no excuse for this!

Has the Vatican contemplated the thousands of deaths it has caused

short answer? No. It's convenient to have god as an excuse for truly braindead ideas.

This is the problem with religion. If an authorative source says it, then so it is (almost "shall be", as in the bible, eh?).

I mean, religious people should say that they believe this or that.. then truth would have nothing to do with it. Else they are going to become liars pretty darn quickly.

This is the problem with religion. If an authorative source says it, then so it is (almost "shall be", as in the bible, eh?).

Clipped from Austin Cline:

Fallacious appeals to authority take the general form of:

1. Person (or people) P makes claim X. Therefore, X is true.

A
fundamental reason why the Appeal to Authority can be a fallacy is that
a proposition can be well supported only by facts and logically valid
inferences. But by using an authority, the argument is relying upon testimony, not facts. A testimony is not an argument and it is not a fact.