Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent during the American Civil War that there was an honor code among soldiers: you couldn't shoot a man while he was defecating.
Too bad they never show this in movies.
Too bad they never show this in movies.
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"
