(July 26, 2020 at 2:38 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
Christians seem to think that Jesus took the punishment for sinners with his sacrifice/suicide on the cross.
It seems that you have stumbled on a fact that Christianity doesn't make any sense. Jesus's death could have been a nice warning story of a needless murder of human life for religion and therefore that people should not be killed in the name of religion, but that "metaphor" is quickly cancelled considering that Jesus made violent threats to people, and that he was equally barbaric as people who killed him and would do same things to all people who don't accept him.
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"