RE: The Gospels....or Bullshit Makes The Flowers Grow
May 29, 2017 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2017 at 9:57 am by Fake Messiah.)
(May 26, 2017 at 2:20 pm)Caligvla XXI Wrote: "For starters Matthew, Mark and John say Jesus was killed at Golgotha, while Luke says it was Calvary."
You might want to toss this. Golgotha is based on the Hebrew/Aramaic word for skull, while Calvary is based on the Latin word for skull.
Actually there are more "explanations" what Golgotha means, from wiki article:
A number of alternative explanations have been given for the name. It has been suggested that the Aramaic name is actually Gol Goatha, meaning mount of execution, possibly the same location as the Goatha mentioned in a Book of Jeremiah passage, describing the geography of Jerusalem. An alternative explanation is that the location was a place of public execution, and the name refers to abandoned skulls that would be found there, or that the location was near a cemetery, and the name refers to the bones buried there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary
and so on... So why would I settle that it simply means the same word when it can also mean other words (like mount of execution) and not two different places?
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"
