RE: Religious culture is the problem, not religion. Since Atheist culture can be good or
July 9, 2020 at 3:14 pm
(July 9, 2020 at 3:01 pm)Snideon Wrote: degenerate
Basically. What has made western world progress is protestant christianity
What makes protestant culture different is this. "Jesus loves you" Ok, get to work
No massive devotion culture. Its just, whatever. Work, work.
And yet they don't allow stem cells research, how do you explain that if they are so pro-progress?
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"
