RE: Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism
September 7, 2023 at 11:42 pm
(September 7, 2023 at 8:59 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(July 8, 2023 at 8:43 am)Paleophyte Wrote: "Kill them all. God will know his own."
- Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric ordering the Massacre of Beziers
Luke 9:
[49] And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.
[50] And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
Pope Innocent IV, Bulla, "Ad Extirpanda"
The head of state or ruler must force all the heretics whom he has in custody, provided he does so without
killing them or breaking their arms or legs, as actual robbers and murderers of souls and thieves of the
sacraments of God and Christian faith, to confess their errors and accuse other heretics whom they know...
That's the problem with Christianity. Jesus supposedly said "love your neighbor", but he also supposedly said that our lives and bodies are unimportant compared to the afterlife.
If one truly believes in the afterlife, and its supremacy of importance, and one believes that the only way to get there is "correct doctrinal belief", then all manners of torture are justified to someone who leads others to stumble in their belief. Christianity then becomes an evil death cult.
