RE: open minded to opinions
October 2, 2020 at 12:39 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2020 at 12:40 am by Fake Messiah.)
(October 1, 2020 at 11:16 am)tackattack Wrote: Asking most atheists about immaterial or supernatural things, is like asking a dog to meow. It's not in the personal landscape of possibilities or most of their definitions.
This could have a supernatural explanation. Maybe Jesus was pushing that plate because Jesus was judged by Pilate which is a very close an almost-anagram of 'plate'. I mean if you remove letter "i" from Pilate you get "plate" and in ancient Greek, Jesus is spelled with an "i" - Iesus.
And it was on a table during a meal - and meal preceded Iesus' meeting with the Pilate so it all makes sense. Jesus was probably saying to you "It's me, Jesus" by moving that plate. Or maybe Jesus was trying to warn you by pushing that plate toward some person who will soon betray you.
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"
