(July 22, 2020 at 5:01 pm)Porcupine Wrote:(July 22, 2020 at 4:30 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The same way one can use to interpret that Christianity was a scam from the beginning.
Not really.
Oh how cute. What, you think all those lies about Jesus like walking on water, virgin birth, healings, resurrection, etc. were invented by early Christians because they honestly wanted to "release all the good on people"? I'll tell you, all those lies weren't intended to help people but to scam them.
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"
