RE: The power of Christ...
August 8, 2023 at 4:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2023 at 4:24 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Magical Jesus falls flat in so many ways. NT says he had bros and sisters, so his sisters were illiterate slaves who were married off to arranged marriages - in other words, their lives weren't any better although they were related to him. So you see how these legends of him healing people are ridiculous when he did not change even the lives of his family members for the better.
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"
