RE: Damned Christians
August 21, 2021 at 3:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2021 at 3:31 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 21, 2021 at 2:10 am)Ahriman Wrote: But allowing oneself to be "crucified" (literally or figuratively), for the good of others, is totally something an empathetic person would do.
It wasn't for the good of the others. Like it wasn't good for the Jews who were for many centuries (up until 1960s) considered Christ-killers and were constantly persecuted by Christians.
For instance, recently I've read a book "Philip Roth The Biography" and there is a part in there about his ancestors in Poland with sentences like this: "Throughout the Middle Ages, Polish landowners had employed Jewish agents to collect rents and taxes from the peasantry, who meanwhile were reminded every Sunday, in church, that the Jews had killed Christ. “Pole, Yid, and hound—each to the same faith bound,” read the legend commonly nailed to trees where a Pole, Jew, and dog had been hanged. Almost every Jew in Tarnopol was killed or expelled in the massacre, and the city itself was burned to the ground."
And that's not even a drop in the bucket. In another instance, in 1298, a priest spread the host-nailing story in Nuremberg, and 628 Jews were killed right away, and then 20 thousand more Jews were murdered see more about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rintfleisch_massacres
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"