RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 13, 2020 at 4:12 am
Grandizer Wrote:then what was that about you confidently telling Belaqua he was wrong by you providing an example which you end up admitting is just based on speculation?
Well, I was also speculating, but it is you who demands undeniable proof.
Grandizer Wrote:I've done some research myself and haven't been able to find one such account.
Big deal. Some other people have done their research and were able to find similar accounts between resurrections.
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"