According to the Gospels or should I say Christian mythology, every Passover, the Jews would ask Pilate to free any one criminal they chose. But how can this be anything else but a blatant lie?
Historical Pontius Pilate never delegated any authority to Jews. Nor did Jews ever have a custom of freeing guilty criminals at Passover or any other time of the year.
And yet Christians take this for granted. They don't care or what? Do they have some excuse for believing in this blatant lie? Maybe it's because Gospels are already filled with so many fantasies (lies) that this is kind of like a "minor" one anyway.
Historical Pontius Pilate never delegated any authority to Jews. Nor did Jews ever have a custom of freeing guilty criminals at Passover or any other time of the year.
And yet Christians take this for granted. They don't care or what? Do they have some excuse for believing in this blatant lie? Maybe it's because Gospels are already filled with so many fantasies (lies) that this is kind of like a "minor" one anyway.
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"
