Almost all religions:
1. "We have the truth"
2. "We are unique"
3. "We have evidence"
4. "All other religions don't have what we have"
5. "The other Gods are silly"
6. "We stand out from the others"
7. "We have trustful testimony"
8. "We have a personal relationship with God"
1. "We have the truth"
2. "We are unique"
3. "We have evidence"
4. "All other religions don't have what we have"
5. "The other Gods are silly"
6. "We stand out from the others"
7. "We have trustful testimony"
8. "We have a personal relationship with 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"