(June 16, 2023 at 2:12 pm)Vicki Q Wrote: The most Jesus achieved in his lifetime was a making decent set of chairs. Possibly a shed in someone's garden. Then he died.
Somehow his friends all decided he had freed humanity from death, fulfilled all the world-shattering promises of the prophets, and established the long awaited Kingdom of God.
Something must have happened.
What friends?
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"
