RE: Over the top
August 22, 2019 at 12:13 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2019 at 12:19 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 21, 2019 at 11:52 pm)Belaqua Wrote: A recent post from this forum:
Quote:Exhibit one of the sickening misanthropy without which there can be no Christianity.
Is this over the top? Does everyone here (except me) agree that the existence of Christianity demands "sickening misanthropy"?
It does and you know that Christians generally hate gays and Jews. Even St. Thomas Aquinas who you venerate and find inspirational concluded that heretics should be outright killed.
Oh, but maybe you want now to switch to St. Augustine? Too bad. He called for heretics to be tortured.
And what about Martin Luther and John Calvin? They advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.
Teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for centuries.
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"
