(June 14, 2022 at 6:08 am)h311inac311 Wrote: I think that if Job were to make a comment from heaven he would probably agree that if his temporary suffering, while he was here on earth, could inspire thousands than for him it would be worth it.
I have not yey heard anyone saying that the killing of their children and living with that loss was worth it. Did you?
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"
