RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the Last 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 19, 2017 at 3:37 pm
This is like that classic Richard Pryor joke in which he says that you never heard of a black man dying in fire because they all run out and then start cursing outside like "Shit! I left my money inside." But then again he set himself on fire.
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"
