(October 6, 2017 at 2:16 pm)Astonished Wrote: Or better yet, in what way is what anything those regimes do able to be considered rational? How about seeing how well they fare when they use logic and reason for everything, think they might be able to get away with the same crap?
Yeah these were hardly secular societies we have now because these people really worshiped those people as gods with supernatural powers. For instance in USSR during Stalin lots of Russians were litteraly afraid to have toughts against him because they tought he could read their minds.
When it comes to Mao Zedong few years ago China’s president had to say in public that people should stop worshiping Mao as a god. These are his own words: "Revolutionary leaders are not gods, but human beings. [We] cannot worship them like gods or refuse to allow people to point out and correct their errors just because they are great."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ident.html
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"
