(August 22, 2017 at 10:42 pm)ScienceAf Wrote:(August 21, 2017 at 9:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: and now you're evolution denying Christian? It seems you were an atheist just like Kirk Cameron claims he was an atheist. If you were truly an atheist, like any one of us, then you would understand evolution and would not go to a state where you suddenly not understand it and embarrass yourself à la Kirk Cameron and his banana proves Jesus fiasco.
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So have you figured out which books from the Bible you will acknowledge as real and which as lies? From your answer I guess "Genesis" is definitely out. I guess parts about Noah and the flood are also not something you'll be for. But what about Moses? Will you believe those stories are true? I mean there is no evidence of him existing either. But then it's all very tricky because you plan to believe in Jesus and yet Jesus is described as someone who thought all those characters, like Adam and Noah, really existed. So now what? How do you reconcile those?
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"
