(November 11, 2019 at 12:38 am)Grandizer Wrote: Jesus was never believed to be a sun god. This falsehood is basically a rehash of the Acharya S/Zeitgeist Movie nonsense, and I sure hope nobody here actually believes this to be true when it's clearly false.
Never? So Jesus's traditional birthdate on 25 December, as the Roman sun god Sol Invictus and as traditional birth of the Sun is just a coincidence?
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"