Hi. I guess since you are new you want to fit in quickly, you don't want to look like some weirdo, so take my posts as a temple to fit in because I am an unbelievably normal person with normal posts. I am so normal that I even have fits of normality where I am even more normal than usual. Even psychiatrists drive me away from their offices saying: "Get out, you're too normal, get some brain disease or something because you are making all of us look bad."
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"
