RE: The Resurrection
February 9, 2025 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2025 at 10:52 am by Fake Messiah.)
Yeah, it's hard to talk about these stuff since they never occur. But if you derive this resurrection "science" from the Bible, Christians demand that people bury dead people in the ground so that when the day of resurrection comes, people can resurrect, meaning that they usually don't even allow cremation since they won't be able to assemble. For example, the Catholic church didn't allow cremation until something like 1997, and even now it's murky. But then they also seem to ignore that people decompose to "nothingness" even when they are buried. I guess the whole idea was based on the promise that the end of days will be soon, definitely before people decompose.
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"
