(May 30, 2023 at 9:59 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Not embalmed doesn't necessarily mean not preserved. The RCC is known to (quietly) mummify possible candidates for sainthood.
Not to mention how the bar for miracles has lowered. In the times before investigative journalism and the scientific method, god used to supposedly raise people from the dead, but now he is just keeping the corpse pretty.
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"