(April 26, 2021 at 3:19 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: I was always scaring the shit out of myself watching scary movies as a kid... my cousins and I were really into them. Anything would scare me. Nightmare on Elm Street franchise being our favorite. Seems really silly now.
Something like that. I remember when I was a kid talking with a friend who said how he saw in the video store a VHS cover of a movie called “Children of the Corn” and now he was afraid every time when he drove near the cornfields at night because he was afraid of these mutant kids that live in the cornfields. Too bad he didn’t watch the actual movie, but just the cover, because it’s very lame and had nothing to do with some bloodthirsty mutant kids living in cornfields, but something else—I’m not even sure exactly what: just some hippies doing something lame (?).
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"
