RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 12, 2019 at 12:19 am
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2019 at 12:53 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 11, 2019 at 8:54 pm)mordant Wrote:(November 9, 2019 at 2:45 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I went to look at it. Its a Christian site trying to take apart rational arguments. Its main thing is its obsession with people not thinking that jesus is real. It seems to offend them.
Hardly. He's just a historical Jesus proponent, which has nothing to do with a person being a believer.
He does seems zealous in "defending" Christianity in every way he can to the point of being completely wrong.
For instance first thing on that page he arrogantly attacks Aron Ra for saying how St. Augustine considered Earth to be flat. But the thing is that Aron didn't make a wrong claim, I mean maybe he wasn't right but certainly he wasn't wrong, and especially that wrong for this guy to make a stupid mockery show à la Kirk Cameroon and the banana.
For instance this is what St. Augustine scholar, Leo Ferrari, wrote about St. Augustine
Quote:[Augustine] was familiar with the Greek theory of a spherical Earth, nevertheless, (following in the footsteps of his fellow North African, Lactantius), he was firmly convinced that the Earth was flat, was one of the two biggest bodies in existence and that it lay at the bottom of the universe. Apparently Augustine saw this picture as more useful for scriptural exegesis than the global Earth at the centre of an immense universe.
Leo Ferrari, "Rethinking Augustine's Confessions, Thirty Years of Discoveries", Religious Studies and Theology (2000)
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"
