(May 10, 2023 at 11:42 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: While some may dismiss Swedenborg's ideas as mere fantasy, I believe there is value in examining the allegorical nature of his writings and the insights they can provide.
If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to 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"