RE: Literal and Not Literal
December 22, 2019 at 3:30 am
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2019 at 3:30 am by Fake Messiah.)
Yeah Christians always considered Bible to be a metaphor and yet they killed people as heretics when they didn't take stories from the Bible literally and banned books from Copernicus because he described universe different than that in the Bible.
Belacqua is delusional again.
Belacqua is delusional again.
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"