(November 8, 2019 at 4:12 am)notimportant1234 Wrote: C'mon, people need a lot of saints in order for them to celebrate name birthdays(I don't know if that is a thing outside of my country).
So saints are something like birthstones?
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"
