RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 13, 2020 at 12:41 am
(August 12, 2020 at 11:51 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I think where they overstate the case is when they say that previous stories have figures dying and coming back FOR US.
There are several stories of dying and coming back, either through one's own power or that of another. Hercules rescues Alcestis from Hades, Dionysus gets chopped up and reassembled, etc. So coming back from the dead is an old story.
Doing it as sacrifice for humanity is unique in Christianity, as far as I know.
Wrong. For instance, the Sun god was considered the "Savior of the World," as it rose and brought light and life to the planet. It was revered for causing seeds to burst and thus giving its life for plants to grow.
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"