(October 14, 2021 at 12:52 am)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: @Fake Messiah
Pretty sure the church hasn't claimed to be made of good and honest men for centuries. Lower level monks and priests especially were seen as flawed human beings.
Priests are supposedly "men of God" who are teaching us, laymen, about morality, what is good or bad, and the Vatican is supposedly Crème de la crème of the clergy with the Pope being one of the "original" apostles.
So not exactly "mere humans" - wouldn't you say?
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"
