When you get a history lesson from Kevin Costner and a "distinguished professor" of new testament on Huston Christian University.
"Months after the wedding, Mary and Joseph set off on the 90-mile journey to his ancestral home of Bethlehem, where they were to register for the Roman census. Joseph needed to travel to his hometown within a certain time frame in order to register."
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You know, just like when people travel during censuses to the homes of their ancient ancestors.
"Months after the wedding, Mary and Joseph set off on the 90-mile journey to his ancestral home of Bethlehem, where they were to register for the Roman census. Joseph needed to travel to his hometown within a certain time frame in order to register."
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https://youtu.be/lRhrTdEkbGU
You know, just like when people travel during censuses to the homes of their ancient ancestors.
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"
