RE: What is the religious defense of this Jesus Christ quote?
July 31, 2024 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2024 at 11:34 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 31, 2024 at 10:14 am)Vicki Q Wrote: RATS to that
You do that and you used every apologist trope in that post about bears (context, wrong translation, the metaphor), that it reads like a parody.
And in Jesus and the sword post, you try to blame all the violence on people who expect the messiah who will destroy the Romans. And why would they expect that? Because the Torah told them. And since god supposedly wrote the Torah and god and Jesus are the same, the blame again goes back to Jesus.
But the truth is that Jesus sword talk is nothing more than the usual violent cultist talk which the NT is full of.
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"
