RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 30, 2020 at 1:11 pm
(August 30, 2020 at 12:36 pm)Grandizer Wrote: I also disagree when you say that his authorship is debated within academia by referring to a passage written by someone not part of this specific academia
And how is the Dutch theologian Van Manen not part of this specific academia?
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"