RE: Atheists: What would you say to a dying child who asks you if they'll go to heaven?
October 30, 2018 at 6:26 am
What it seems to me is that it's not the child that needs consolation but parents. It's much harder on parents.
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"
