(January 9, 2024 at 7:59 am)h4ym4n Wrote: Another idiot that doesn’t know their Bible
Deu 23:1 - He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD
Actually, when it comes to the Bible, Jesus also told his followers to castrate themselves:
"For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.” Matthew 19:12 (KJV)
But that teaching is mostly ignored by Christians, except for Origen who apparently followed it.
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"
