It is telling me that good Muslims aren't good people because of their holy book; they are good people in spite of it. They are unwilling to accept at face value any verse or passage that doesn't align with their personal ethics and morality.
Question is why not cut out the middleman? You already have what you're hoping to get from a book that tells you that you need the book in order to get what you already have without the book in the first place.
Question is why not cut out the middleman? You already have what you're hoping to get from a book that tells you that you need the book in order to get what you already have without the book in the first place.
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"
