(July 29, 2024 at 3:39 am)h311inac311 Wrote: Would if most people didn't respond to the census?
Also, you can't make the statement, "without any other author from the period so much as mentioning it." Unless you're a time traveler.
I could give you countless reasons as to why, but I think you're right, I think that in the age where laws were enforced by sword and bow, most people just shrugged their shoulders and said, "they can't arrest us all" and simply chose to keep on doing what they were doing. Maybe they weren't as eager to obey the law as Joseph was.
Also, during this time it was a lot more common to be near where your ancestors from 1,000 years ago lived. Nowadays, we would need a DNA test that would sprawl out across half the Earth.
Those are just ad hoc nonsenses showing that it is just impossible for facts to enter your thick flerf skull that the census described in the Bible is too absurd and impossible to have actually happened.
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"
