Oddbean new post about login | logout >If any of the church fathers are speaking blasphemous stuff that doesn't jive with the Bible, cast it into the fire a big example that I have probably said 6 gorillion times is jerome of stridon, I don't think it says in the Bible that you should pressure young impressionable women into starving themselves to death.
He helped a 19 year old socialite widow live out the rest of her life as an ascetic Christian rather than partying until death followed by eternity in hell. It's like an extremely hardcore interpretation of Matthew 18:8
I know but he murdered the woman and mocked all who pointed out the evil of this deed, he never repented, there's a good chance he's burning in hell,
>If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire. 9And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into [b]hell fire. He didn't take 💩 from the Godless degenerates around him who were sad that their equivalent of a Paris Hilton died too early as a pious woman instead of partying at ye olde patrician playboy mansion.