(September 11, 2018 at 2:55 am)Mathilda Wrote: In the same way as driving a brand new car off the forecourt lowers its value, or taking a toy out its box. These are important considerations if you want a good return on your investment on your daughters when you come to trade them in for other goods and services. No man is going to give you many goats for a daughter who is already pregnant with someone else's child.
And yet people buy used cars all the time, sometimes for even much more money than the new ones cost and even cherish them more.
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"
