What angers me is that religion is dumbing people, cheating them, halting human progress, but what annoys me on daily basis is church bells. Near me is some orthodox church and orthodox churches really seem to have a knack for ringing really big bells. Just imagine at least two days a week + Sunday they have bell ringing every 15 minutes and those are really big bells, like when you watch "Sound Of Music" and Maria Von Trapp is getting married. All dogs in the street start wailing in pain, not to mention that every morning at 6 am they start to bang and if you happen to sleep at that time they wake you up.
And the shit I see. Just few days ago they again had some sort of "holiday" and some younger priest dressed in gray robe (I guess he was too young for usual black robe) kept walking around the church and street confused for hours holding some sort of pillow in his hand (like he's holding a baby) and pillow had printed a giant cross on it.
Their priests are all dressed in black and have beards but when there's a really big "holiday" some priest all dressed in white comes out of the car (also has beard) and they start to worship him - I guess he's some sort of Jesus.
And the shit I see. Just few days ago they again had some sort of "holiday" and some younger priest dressed in gray robe (I guess he was too young for usual black robe) kept walking around the church and street confused for hours holding some sort of pillow in his hand (like he's holding a baby) and pillow had printed a giant cross on it.
Their priests are all dressed in black and have beards but when there's a really big "holiday" some priest all dressed in white comes out of the car (also has beard) and they start to worship him - I guess he's some sort of Jesus.
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"
