(April 29, 2020 at 1:44 am)Belacqua Wrote: Dante shows lust to be the least bad and most easily forgiven sin. The worst is pride.
Well, *DUH* obviously. That's why there are so many pedophiles in Vatican and catholic clergy - because they esily forgive them when they rape kids.
PRIEST: Father, I lusted over 50 kids last month.
CARDINAL: Oh, you are forgiven, you silly goose. Here, you have a mission in school in Central African Republic.
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"