RE: One of the Co-founders of Taliban,Likely to be Afghanistan New President
August 16, 2021 at 11:17 pm
(August 16, 2021 at 11:04 pm)DocIllinois Wrote: My newness here leaves me unfamiliar on the subject, but how many pages of "Oh yeah, well here's how awful you are..." ripostes can a thread run before it's killed?
Yeah, one really has to wonder how much an actual Taliban who is trying to recruit people to his cause can contribute to any sane conversation.
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"