RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 30, 2016 at 8:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2016 at 8:28 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 30, 2016 at 8:05 am)SteveII Wrote: What exactly is God instructing that is immoral? He is regulating a less-than-ideal social system. He does not instruct people to get slaves. Your objection is that he does not forbid it. Then we are right back to the question you refuse to answer: how would a society (such as they had) effect the same goals without this system?
Only a regulator, where is his magic now to destroy slavery? But also telling slaves to embrace their masters (Ephesians 6:5 by St Paul) "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ." Whores obey your pimps - yeah where is bad in that? He's only regulating, it's not like he can do something.
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"
