There is an entire field of religious philosophy called “apologetics” and its proponents are called “apologists.”
What they do is construct arguments to counter criticisms of Bible passages by loosely interpreting the literal word, thereby leaving room for the Bible to not sound as though it contradicts empirical findings of the natural world.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
What they do is construct arguments to counter criticisms of Bible passages by loosely interpreting the literal word, thereby leaving room for the Bible to not sound as though it contradicts empirical findings of the natural world.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"