(May 9, 2020 at 5:20 am)Belacqua Wrote: As usual, he is talking about a kind of lowest common denominator, the worst version of Christianity, which somehow he believes is normal among a huge and diverse group of people.
Really? There are bad and worst kinds of Christianities? Do you have a list?
We are all talking here about the influence of Christianity on people in every day life which is pretty bad and if you want to call them "worst kinds of Christianities" then that's your thing, but they are most prevailing ones since they influence politics, education systems and so on
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"
