(April 24, 2018 at 4:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I suspect that the most basic, fundamental reason Christians go to church is that they're afraid not to.
Boru
And especially old people. I knew few old women that toward the end of their lives they were obsessed with going to church every day and even calling the priest to apologize when they couldn't make it for that day.
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"
