(December 23, 2018 at 10:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 23, 2018 at 10:50 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: And then one day God said: "Fuck this five hundred people in Indonesia." and killed them.
Well, clearly they were sinners, or God wouldn't have killed them. All those infants just sinning and sinning and sinning...
Boru
Hey, those little children can get quite pesky. Like calling God's prophet "Baldy" so what else is God to do but kill them:
2 Kings 2:23–24 “And he [Elisha] went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.”
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"
