(June 26, 2018 at 7:28 am)MysticKnight Wrote: I approach a book from God as it should. Don't know what you doing.
Sure I'll explain what I am doing: I am reading the whole text including those that are not very loving and not just parts I want to be true and also lifting my nose out of Koran and seeing the world around, like three year old kids dying in horrible pain from childhood leukemia and other cancers - that doesn't spell that god is love.
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"
