(March 17, 2023 at 7:36 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: What makes you think those are mutually exclusive?
Because we understand that the stories in the Bible are just fairytales while you are trying to find something that is not there.
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"