(March 6, 2024 at 7:48 am)Belacqua Wrote: Apparently you think the Bible was intended to be something like a science textbook, or a newspaper article. Just the facts. There seems to be a sort of assumption that the better a book is, the more it approaches the instructions that come with Ikea furniture -- absolutely clear, incapable of misinterpretation, and purely functional.
Why people believe that I don't know.
Because it's common knowledge
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"
