RE: Jesus and Mary, In Catholicism and Islam
August 24, 2021 at 7:56 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2021 at 7:57 am by Fake Messiah.)
This topic is one of the key reasons why many people are skeptical of Christianity. There are a maddening number of versions of it, and this adds to the confusion and doubt. When someone tells you that they have figured out the truth about Jesus, it is just one version of thousands, which is a problem. How can any Christian blame skeptics for not embracing Christianity when the world's Christians can't even agree on precisely who Jesus is, what he wants people to do, how are people supposed to worship him, and how people get to heaven?
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"
