(June 29, 2021 at 12:39 pm)ronedee Wrote: ...Over the years, I've always pondered the fact that there is virtually no "peace" here, and in most otherÂ
atheistic (w/no mention of God allowed) forums.
Ah, yes, nothing brings in peace like God
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"