Oh yeah it's the anniversary of her death and I've noticed there are documentaries about her on TV and I really don't understand the fascination people have for her. I'm not talking about her death but I don't know why did she capture people's hearts? She was this shy woman among the royal family - is that why? I mean I remember on of those "catching people's hearts" stories about her how some fan of hers bought her an expensive coat and she refused to take it. But I guess she did one thing right and that is she shook hand with an AIDS person on TV and that apparently persuaded people to fear them less.
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"
