RE: Ham vs. Craig
November 27, 2021 at 11:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2021 at 11:50 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 27, 2021 at 7:27 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: Hypatia was murdered on the urging of the Bishop of Alexandria. A pagan, a philosopher mathematician and woman who disagreed with Christian dogma She had some influence with the Governor and some of the people of Alexandria. Consequently, she was a threat to the Bishop's power. Anyway, that's my take based on what I've seen and read.
Christians saw her as a threat because they didn't like the free discussion of ideas and therefore as someone who threatened bishops. And they did kill her in the church. People did hold Bishop Cyril responsible because he fermented hate against her and probably ordered her murder.
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"
