(February 20, 2019 at 10:37 am)tackattack Wrote: What made it surreal? The fact that they accepted an atheist bookeeper? The fact that they're bringing in a shit ton of money? The fact that safety is important for new hires? The fact that there are cameras everywhere? I'm missing what's surreal. Sounds like you got a good temporary gig.
What arewethereyet found strange was how little faith these holy people had in God and that he would protect them by having such extensive security. It's like going on a lake to walk on water but also bringing with you scuba gear just in case there is no God.
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"
