(January 10, 2019 at 5:02 pm)Dr H Wrote:(January 10, 2019 at 2:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Christian leaders can't burn books anymore or create lists of forbidden books, they can't control information anymore and considering that it doesn't take a lot of logic and education to see that Bible and whole Christianity is bullshit - they are scared shitless and they are losing sheep because people are getting informed through their devices.
They can continue to create lists of forbidden books, and some sects still do.
They can't enforce the prohibitions, at least in most western countries.
But plenty of government and political entities around the world continue to ban certain books.
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"
