(August 26, 2019 at 4:45 am)Belaqua Wrote: As I pointed out yesterday, one of Jesus's most famous messages is that we shouldn't stone adulterers.
And one of the less famous of Jesus messages is to stone children who disobey their parents in Mark 7:9-11 -- why is that?
Besides, Jesus only said "Who is without sin should throw the stone first" at adulterous woman, but if Mary was there, his mother-wife, she could have thrown the stone since she was sinless.
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"
