RE: Those Political Memes
November 7, 2021 at 2:56 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2021 at 2:57 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Hey, wait a minute, this is something that Christians also frequently say to atheists and towards other ideas they feel threaten Christianity, but have no logical arguments to prove it wrong (from the book, How Fascism Works)
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"