(June 13, 2021 at 3:19 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote: Notice the word says those who were about to literally execute the woman became "convicted by their conscience" and left one by one.
But that's the thing: the law is the law, it doesn't matter what their conscience says. That's why I compared it with a convict on the electric chair about to be executed, but they don't do it because of their conscience or anything else that is outside the law system.
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"