RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami...
April 13, 2017 at 11:20 am
(April 13, 2017 at 9:23 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:Yeah, it really begs the question of what is the point defending someone so awful as god in the Bible? I mean there really is nothing so awful and low that this character didn't do. He literally commanded people to sacrifice their first born sons after 8 days to him - I mean how low and monstrous can you get than that? And yet we, the non-believers, to them are evil and deceiving and unreasonable and apparently "close minded".(April 12, 2017 at 8:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: The God described in the vast majority of the OT is one of love, compassion, patience, justice, etc.
No, my question is what kind of mental block do you have to have to utter such nonsense? Are you sure you're not related to Trump?
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"
