RE: The Purpose of Pain
January 26, 2021 at 11:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2021 at 11:34 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(January 26, 2021 at 11:12 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Look up opium.
Opium was being used in Europe but not until the 16th century. It seems it fell out the favor from 1300s to 1500s.
And you don't mention other things from the article, like Acupuncture and Leeching which is obviously a mumbo jumbo. So to be honest the article seems far fetched, if not wishful thinking.
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"
