Not to mention that god killing himself / his son was a failure because even now, two thousand years later, most people still aren't being saved each generation. Christians are a minority worldwide. The majority of people simply don't believe the Jesus story is true. So, if it really happened, not only was the sacrifice of Jesus strange and gruesome, it was also a mostly wasted effort that has failed to save the majority of people. So god really failed.
I certainly wouldn't want anyone to have to suffer and die for me.
I certainly wouldn't want anyone to have to suffer and die for me.
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"
