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RE: So has Christ returned
May 20, 2022 at 12:31 pm
(May 20, 2022 at 1:36 am)medusa53 Wrote: No, Jesus has not returned yet; but soon. Just look at how this world has changed in the last 10 years. I have talked with many Agnostics and Atheists and listened to their side of the story with an open mind. How can you NOT believe??
I've heard that line from numerous theists or Christians groups since I was a kid. It's always turned out to be a load of bunk. Jesus promised to return within the lifetimes of his immediate followers and failed. Apologists have been backpedaling ever since. The Second Coming is nothing but a pipe dream. Get over it.
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RE: So has Christ returned
May 20, 2022 at 12:35 pm
(May 20, 2022 at 12:31 pm)Gwaithmir Wrote: (May 20, 2022 at 1:36 am)medusa53 Wrote: No, Jesus has not returned yet; but soon. Just look at how this world has changed in the last 10 years. I have talked with many Agnostics and Atheists and listened to their side of the story with an open mind. How can you NOT believe??
I've heard that line from numerous theists or Christians groups since I was a kid. It's always turned out to be a load of bunk. Jesus promised to return within the lifetimes of his immediate followers and failed. Apologists have been backpedaling ever since. The Second Coming is nothing but a pipe dream. Get over it.
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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"
