(July 26, 2018 at 7:00 pm)Khemikal Wrote: -and that's the rub. Christianity has always been based on the zeitgeist of the time. So, today...you have a bunch of Muricans thinking Socialism™ is the end of the world.....?
Expect to see that in their sermons.
In any case it's tremendously stupid to say Christianity has been effective at making people more compassionate, ethical and loving. One only needs to remember at Early Christian intolerance, Crusades, colonialism, Dark Ages, witch trials, American Puritans persecuting others, Christian treatment of natives, Christians & slavery, Bible Belt problems.
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"
