RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 19, 2022 at 3:18 am
(April 19, 2022 at 3:04 am)Belacqua Wrote: Well, it doesn't really matter who said it. Dawkins, or his fanboys, or somebody else. I've heard it said, and I'm surprised you haven't. A lot of over-the-top anti-religious things get said on forums like this, and they usually go by unchallenged because it's a safe space to vent one's hatred.
It's still better than fanboys of Aquinas and Augustine who actually wrote openly that people should be killed for their religion (like Jews) - you know, fanboys like you who is also a frequent apologist for Inquisition, apologist for the killing of Giordano Bruno by the Holy Office, etc.
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"
