(June 22, 2024 at 8:50 am)h311inac311 Wrote: How do you know that Mary and Joseph wouldn't have to travel to Bethlehem to participate in the census?
The same way I know that people are not living inside my TV.
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"
