(April 27, 2020 at 9:29 pm)Smaug Wrote: I tried to be a religious person for a period of time but it just didn't feel right. Eventually I found it too boring and ridiculous and bordering on mere superstition. And completely unnecessary.
And what about embarrassed? Where you ever embarrassed for believing or making people think you believe in fairytales?
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"
