(May 10, 2020 at 9:31 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Maybe the shallowness of your interlocutors here is why you have so far limited yourself to only literal readings of the OT.
Yeah, masoni, can't you see that everything in the Bible is a metaphor and Yahweh himself is just one huge figure of speech?
The only problem is what a metaphor it is? It certainly isn't a set of moral tales. And you can forget about it being a handy guide to what’s right and wrong.
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"
