(March 23, 2022 at 6:38 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Given that there were, indeed, myths and legends from the ancients, his contemporaries had enough ammunition to discredit his claims, yet nobody did.
And yet, only a small minority of the world population believes Mohammed, and most of those who believe him for the fear of capital punishment are not allowed not to believe him - as if it's all obvious nonsense.
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"