(March 16, 2023 at 11:28 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I know I have barely scratched the texts and look forward to understanding them more...particularly in terms of the ancient middle east mindset.
You are not trying to understand the Bible but, rather, you are trying to take it seriously.
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"
