(September 4, 2019 at 1:43 am)Belaqua Wrote:(September 3, 2019 at 10:19 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Point is if there was something so important in the Bible it wouldn't be written in metaphors and poetry so that you can and must interpret it in many ways, but it would be written in a clear way, like the Constitution.
If there were an omnipotent god, it would do exactly what Fake Messiah would do. No doubt of that.
Or like the writers of the United States Constitution. Imagine if United States Constitution was written like Bible: in poetry and metaphors and stories, then you would have wars waging for what each of the amendments really means. But it is not. It was written in straight forward crystal language that even when translated doesn't lose it's meaning.
That's why when you have an unclear text that you can interpret this way or that way and many other ways, then you can't say that there's a serious message there to begin with.
Although I'm not saying I would not be a much better God than the supposed God is right now, as almost everyone would be with hurricanes, wars, famine, plagues, etcetera, that he creates and can't stop.
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"
