(February 23, 2021 at 10:07 am)Redstar Wrote: With mention of birds, Jesus was not advocating we behave like birds (?!) but rather showing that God provides everything birds need to survive. They do not have to do any production work themselves, the stuff is just there for them.
God does not provide for the birds. Being a bird is a full-time job, very hard with heartbreaking decisions.
People are not idiots. If hunter-gathering life was better, they wouldn't have gone agrarian.
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"