RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 13, 2020 at 1:12 am
(August 13, 2020 at 12:45 am)Grandizer Wrote: Might help to provide references to primary sources just so we're clear first on what they actually say, rather than what certain people with an agenda claim they say.
Primary source: sun goes down every day ("into the underground") then comes back again, bringing life with it. Not so hard to check.
(August 13, 2020 at 12:45 am)Grandizer Wrote: Sun god is so generic and vague, by the way.And Jesus isn't?
That's how it is with gods: they usually are generic, made from neighboring mythologies.
(August 13, 2020 at 12:45 am)Grandizer Wrote: What sun god are we talking about specifically?
Yeah, there are so many suns out there.
Maybe the one worshiped in Egypt and countries nearby.
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"