(August 21, 2021 at 4:05 pm)Mashmont Wrote: My brother is gay. He's also a strong conservative. He's very content in his life and is a very devout Catholic who volunteers many hours a week. He doesn't talk about his orientation just like I don't talk about mine.
Oh great, the poor guy must hide who he is towards the Catholic Church or suffer the consequences. What an abusive and deceitful relationship, and you advertise it as a happy story.
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"
