RE: "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me"
June 13, 2018 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2018 at 10:15 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 13, 2018 at 10:02 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(June 7, 2018 at 5:48 am)Kit Wrote: Satan is technically an angel, not a god.
In a religion that wasn't trying to convince everyone that it's monotheistic, angels would be lesser gods.
Or Christianity and Judaism are not monotheism at all but henotheism. True monotheism happened for a brief time in the mid-fourteenth century B.C.E. in Egypt under a pharaoh Akhenaten.
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"
