RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 10, 2019 at 1:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2019 at 2:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 10, 2019 at 12:47 am)Belacqua Wrote: On the other hand, I would hate to think that your completely false statement was based merely on your desire to continue believing the common historical fictions about Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo, etc.
Christians who continue to believe historical fictions about St. George, etc., are probably much the same. Either they're stoned out of their minds (high on Christ!) or their desires overcome their ability to reason.
This is a historian talking about Giordano Bruno. So tell me what historical fiction do I and we believe that differs from this historical account that, according to you, is falsely because we desire it?
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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"