RE: How do theists justify the translations of the scriptures?
September 20, 2019 at 8:06 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2019 at 8:07 am by Fake Messiah.)
Bottom line is that Christians don't care what is in the Bible, they just make the Bible say whatever they want. For instance, some people like to claim that if only it was written somewhere in the Bible that slavery is forbidden, but the thing is even if one of the 10 commandments forbade slavery, Christians would still interpret and translated it like it says something different and ultimately like it doesn't even exist.
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"
