RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 26, 2015 at 3:04 am
You tell them: "And you want to spend eternity with a guy that gives bone cancer to babies and that created world with so much misery that is not our fault and can't learn to forgive people for petty crimes so he fries them for eternity! And you want to spend eternity with this guy!! How fucked up are you?!!!"
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"