(May 5, 2021 at 9:53 am)Drich Wrote: sweetheart your little video is call/considered a tertiary commentary and can be refuted with a nut-huh. I provided you with 5 primary sources.
Yeah, right. What are actual historians and experts compared to fanatical Christians.
Indeed, only fanatical Christians take those "sources" seriously.
Take that Mara Bar-Serapion's letter. Nobody knows who Mara Bar-Serapion was, when the letter was written -- he certainly could not have been a contemporary of Jesus; the letter contains blunders (lies) like: that Athens suffered famine and pestilence after Socrates’ death, that Pythagoras was burned by the people of Samos.
Also, the letter doesn't even mention Jesus by name but some “Wise King” who “enacted new laws” to which there is no indication that it is Jesus. And so on.
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"
