(August 1, 2024 at 7:05 am)Vicki Q Wrote: The downside to not being a fundi is that I have to manage complexity. Like we do with Maths, Languages, Physics...
The thing what you do is not different from a fundie or any other Christian that disagrees with: you all use the same tropes of metaphor, wrong translation, context to get the Bible to say exactly what you want it to say.
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"
