(August 25, 2019 at 11:18 pm)Belaqua Wrote: But I have never, and would never, dismiss all that is wretched, immoral, and truly reprehensible about the Bible and command people to just focus on the aesthetics. And it is bizarre that you think I have done that.
But you are dismissing all that is wretched, immoral, and truly reprehensible about the God
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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"