(December 23, 2022 at 2:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(November 19, 2022 at 5:03 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: You know, this just reminded me, about two weeks ago on a Saturday night I was driving by an Evangelical church, and inside I could see a bunch of people in their early twenties standing by the glass door of the church. Poor bastards being kept in the church on a Saturday night, probably brainwashed to think that any fun was evil.
probably should have checked to see if they were locked in looking for a way out.......
"What are you doing on Saturday night?"
"Staring at this statue with my friends"
But it also reminded me of this video by ex-Evangelicals who went to Evangelical college and how they even had cards to track if they spent assigned time in the chapel. How they were constantly supervised, even when they were in their rooms someone would pass every 15 minutes to check them. And if they watched a movie together and were covered with blankets, they had to keep their hands outside so that there was no chance that they were masturbating under the blanket.
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"