(August 22, 2019 at 12:50 am)Belaqua Wrote: Anyway, you've changed the claim somewhat. We could make historical claims that the earliest Christians were misanthropic. (I doubt it, but historical evidence might be presented.) This is still different from claiming that misanthropy is a non-detachable essential part of the Christianity that exists.
If Christianity without misanthropy can exist, then the quoted claim is false.
You are, of course, free to interpret the Bible/ Christianity differently and more peaceful than the saints and patriarchs I mentioned in previous post, but isn't it amazing that you have succeeded in discerning the true teachings of Christianity, while the most influential thinkers in the history of your faith failed?
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"
