RE: I believe the Bible is God's Word
September 10, 2024 at 1:41 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2024 at 1:42 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 9, 2024 at 8:34 pm)Belacqua Wrote: It's especially difficult to know who made them up originally. There were goat herders in those days. There were also educated classes who knew a lot more than goat herders, and were writing with various purposes in mind.
There are educated people now and they are not the ones claiming to speak to god and write holy books, but the dumbest people are doing that - just like it has always been the case. It's not especially difficult to know that, just read the text because it's very stupid, like guy gets swallowed by a sea monster that spits him out in three days, or the talking snake, or the world flood, etc.
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"
