(July 10, 2022 at 8:02 am)Belacqua Wrote: And it's just wildly false to believe that a person in the 16th century would be burned at the stake for agreeing with Anselm, Augustine, Aquinas, Ficino, and many others, that much of the Bible should be read in non-literal ways.
Believing and typing falsehoods about history do not help defend good political goals against modern Christians. It's not enough to be anti-religion; we should also be pro-truth.
That's NOT what I stated. One would be burned alive in the 16th-century for declaring that Holy Writ had errors in the original manuscripts; here are some examples:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...s_heretics
Did Jesus of Nazareth exist as a historical person, and during his lifetime, did he miraculously walk on liquid water under STP conditions? Prior to 1700, virtually everyone in Western Europe would answer an unequivocal "Yes" to such a question, and if you publicly disagreed, you would be imprisoned, or in earlier times, be publicly burned at the stake.
