Finally you get to yell at trees; eat with your unwashed hands; denounce your own mother and whole family; torture your enemies forever; create Christ-killers; curse people; call people fools and vipers; tell other people not to be afraid to die but then you yourself hide from potential danger to your life; tell people they can't be with you unless they hate their own father, mother and whole family; tell people that demons are the cause of diseases and much more.
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"
