Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
> > How much of a misreading was that?
Carrol Cox:
> Jesus did invoke the danger of hellfire, and he did say give unto
> caesar,etc., which implied approval of slavery. I don't think "he" (the
> character in the gospels) gave much basis for the doctrine that really
> is at the center of much christian horror -- the doctrine of the
> trinity. Christianity as politically conservative and a sanction to
> torture is not a misreading of what is in the gospels.
An inability to make out significant differences between the fellow in the Gospels and Torquemada is probably beyond my modest powers of assistance.
-- Gordon