(May 2, 2023 at 9:29 am)kimberlyrose Wrote: Hi there, I used to be an atheist as well, and it wasn't until recently that I started going to church and finding some inspiration in my faith.
So what exactly was it in the church that inspired you? Was it the preaching of hate toward LGBTQ people or the denial of evolution or persecution complex or logical fallacies or moral panic or just the overall distortion of reality?
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"