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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone performed an exorcism on the vandalized statue of Junipero Serra, a bringer of death to Native American populations. Hemant Mehta: “Instead of thanking the people who toppled the statue, they performed a magic trick for an audience.”
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020...ero-serra/
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone performed an exorcism on the vandalized statue of Junipero Serra, a bringer of death to Native American populations. Hemant Mehta: “Instead of thanking the people who toppled the statue, they performed a magic trick for an audience.”
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020...ero-serra/
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"
