RE: Let's be biblically literary
September 4, 2019 at 3:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2019 at 3:02 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 4, 2019 at 2:10 am)Belaqua Wrote:(September 4, 2019 at 2:06 am)Grandizer Wrote: If the purpose is to inform us of something very important for our spiritual wellbeing, then FM is being reasonable.
If the purpose is to inform us straight out of something that it wants to tell us straight out, then I guess it would do so.
Why do we assume that an omni-type deity would do that?
Yeah, gee, why would I assume that a deity which is ready to punish people to torture and pain for eternity, if they don't obey his rules, would write those rules very clear so that people can avoid it?
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"
