(August 25, 2021 at 1:47 pm)Ahriman Wrote: so locking them up and throwing away the key, would be an appropriate thing to do.
They do that now (although not enough) because people write and talk about clergy raping kids and put pressure on them. Before, the clergy was untouchable, and it still is untouchable in too many parts of the world because people are afraid to talk about it.
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"
