(March 4, 2020 at 11:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Yes, and profoundly so, because they were writing down accounts told to them by others who had heard about them from others, who had gotten them from "who knows where". And, in addition, those written accounts were copied and changed in the decades and centuries thereafter.
Maybe when it comes to Gospels, but anything after that is like this Trump's assistant. Like that crazy Paul who also claimed to have had visions and visited heaven. And then all those books afterwards written by who knows who.
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"
