Not just that but I remember watching BBC documentary called "How to kill a human being" see vid about executing prisoners and how it gets very painful so the guy investigated what would be the painless execution and there are ways like breathing pure nitrogen. So when he went to leading proponents of execution in prisons they told him that this painless execution is out of the question and that these people deserve to die in great pain.
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"
