Turtle Jonathan is still alive and even having a birthday today. He is 188 years young. (Born circa 1832). He has lived through both the World Wars, the Russian Revolution, and changing of 39 US presidents as well as seven British monarchs... Happy Birthday!
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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"