RE: Jesus and the birds
February 19, 2021 at 1:56 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2021 at 1:57 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(February 19, 2021 at 12:37 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote: If one really knew who the Lord Jesus, the Christ Is, one would think twice about unnecessarily, unwisely insulting Him.
The point is that the birds do preoccupy themselves with the pursuit of the material - food - and often fail and is normal for them to abandon their kids b/c they can not feed them. Birds eat probably more than any other animal (by looking at weight to quantity of food ratio).
Indeed, when you listen to Christians trying to rationalize Jesus' words as wise and smart, you see that they are suffering from "Being There" effect/ delusion. "Being There" is a novel and a movie starring Peter Sellers about a half-retarded gardener who talks nonsense, but everyone interprets them as profound because they start with the conclusion that the gardener is very smart, instead of actually listening to him.
So no wonder Mercyvessel post starts with these words:
Mercyvessel Wrote:If one really knew who the Lord Jesus, the Christ Is, one would think twice about unnecessarily, unwisely insulting 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"