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Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
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RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One
(June 1, 2023 at 5:20 am)Vicki Q Wrote: That the disciples as a group signed up for a sharply reduced lifetime of pain isn't explainable by politics or economics.

Again, there is no evidence for your claim that the apostles suffered for Jesus. Not even the Bible claims that. The only source for that are legends that Christians invented during later centuries along with thousands of other martyr saints they invented who never even existed.

Here are some invented martyrs who signed up for a sharply reduced lifetime, but, in reality, they never existed:

St. Eustace (general in Emperor Trajan’s army), St. George (dragon slayer who could pray so that God destroys pagan temples and kill its priests by fire rain and earthquakes), St. Christopher (Hercules-type guy who carried child Jesus over a dangerous river), St. Alexius Of Rome (son of a Roman senator), St. Philomena (who was so beautiful and devoted to God that emperor Diocletian killed her for not wanting to marry him), St. Catherine Of Alexandria (another one that was close to the Roman emperor who killed her because he couldn't win a debate with her and then her corpse flew in the sky to Mt. Sinai where there is a church devoted on her landing site), St. Veronica (who wiped Jesus' face and healed Emperor Tiberius with it, and is now practically depicted in every church on the Stations of the Cross, although she isn't even mentioned in the Bible), and hundreds more.
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"
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RE: Most People Insist That Two Separate Being Can Never Be One - by Fake Messiah - June 1, 2023 at 6:08 am

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