(April 2, 2024 at 2:27 pm)God_is_Good Wrote: Jesus literally died for us.
If God loved me, he would have lived for me. He could have flown down from heaven and told us about all sorts of things that would have improved our lives instead of us figuring them out for many centuries.
For starters, he could have told us about germs and how to treat them. Then, if the Romans tried to kill him out of fear, he could prove to be indestructible so that they bowed to him and listened to his teachings as he uncovers more scientific revelations to better human lives and he sets out commandments of how not to misuse science for evil. Then, after a few centuries, when he made sure that people had learned his teachings, he flies back where he came from.
But no. Instead, we get a guy who was active for a year and who told people not to masturbate and mostly regurgitated sayings from the Old Testament and then died.
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"
