(May 9, 2020 at 12:11 am)WinterHold Wrote:(May 9, 2020 at 12:01 am)Brian37 Wrote: Lets not limit human mythological tribalism to one religion.
Jews and Buddhists and Hindus also have their own history of fighting others and infighting.
Religion of all labels does not prevent violence. There is not one nation on the face of the planet that does not have prisons and hospitals.
Let's not forget about non-religious maniacs like Stalin.
Stalin was his own religion - cult of personality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%27s...ersonality
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"
