(January 3, 2021 at 4:03 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Farcical stories in the Bible don’t disprove God. They disprove the notion that the Bible is inerrant.
Boru
Don't they? If you read a book about paleo contacts which was the only evidence that aliens visited us in the past, and it turned out that everything in that book is a lie, that would mean that aliens didn't visit Earth in the past. So isn't it the same with the Bible?
Granted, it wouldn't mean that aliens don't exist somewhere, but it would mean that they didn't visit us, and God not visiting us defeats its purpose/ existence.
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"
