RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami...
April 15, 2017 at 3:44 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2017 at 3:45 am by Fake Messiah.)
(April 14, 2017 at 10:45 am)SteveII Wrote: Is death a punishment when you are talking about an immortal soul? In fact, it was a gift that God gave the innocent that they did not grow up and become like their parents and risk the permanent separation from God. God always has the eternal perspective in mind.
How do you know they did not know of him? Noah certainly did.
So you see death as a good solution for others, but what about yourself? I mean if death is such a blessing because you get to be with god, do you wish you were now terminally ill and had like a week to live? I mean wouldn't that make you lucky considering that you are in a right religion and you could do all the right things to secure you get to god?
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"
