Actually, I am near to getting my atheist diploma from this forum with a dissertation titled "Like Flies on Shit: How Religious Believe Any Shit They Are Ordered To Without Any Thinking Or Evidence, And How They Cry and Scream When You Try To Show Them the Truth".
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"
