(September 16, 2020 at 10:14 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: The issue I think you're having is attempting to view a religious topic from an atheist perspective. No Christian ever says "I have faith that Jesus walked on water" unless they are talking to an atheist. Christians by definition already believe God exists and that Jesus walked on water.
It's not just from an atheist perspective, as I tried to explain, but you seem to ignore it.
Just like you would dismiss a faithful Buddhist claiming that Dalai Lama reincarnates as pretending to know things he doesn’t know, that's how it is with an atheist and your faith claim about Jesus walking on water.
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"
