RE: Why Statues In The First Place?
June 25, 2020 at 6:35 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2020 at 6:38 am by Fake Messiah.)
Statues are kind of society's celebration of individuals, basically saying to people "Be like that person and his values" and that's why people are protesting against statues because they are protesting against cultural racism.
That's why there aren't statues of nazis in Germany because that would be like sending a message: "Hate Jews, hate gays, hate everyone."
And that's why during the U.S. invasion Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled down.
That's why there aren't statues of nazis in Germany because that would be like sending a message: "Hate Jews, hate gays, hate everyone."
And that's why during the U.S. invasion Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled down.
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"
