RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 7, 2019 at 12:51 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2019 at 12:52 pm by Fake Messiah.)
So Christians were taking other gods and Canonizing them into saints.
Because people believed in the legends and Christians were like "Yeah, we know that guy, he was actually a Christian named St. Achilles and not Greek demigod Akhilleus."
Or St. George is Canonization of the Druidic savior god Green George, the deified oak tree.
Gabriel archangel is deification of the planet Mercury.
Deification of the planet Mars is archangel Mikhael.
But Muslims did it too. Like Allat is deification of the planet Venus, as the mother of the male god Allah.
Al-Uzza Pre-Islamic deification of the planet Mercury.
Because people believed in the legends and Christians were like "Yeah, we know that guy, he was actually a Christian named St. Achilles and not Greek demigod Akhilleus."
Or St. George is Canonization of the Druidic savior god Green George, the deified oak tree.
Gabriel archangel is deification of the planet Mercury.
Deification of the planet Mars is archangel Mikhael.
But Muslims did it too. Like Allat is deification of the planet Venus, as the mother of the male god Allah.
Al-Uzza Pre-Islamic deification of the planet Mercury.
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"