RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
January 19, 2022 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2022 at 5:35 pm by Fake Messiah.)
If you think that people with youtube challenges are going too far then you'll be shocked to discover that people were always like that (if not worse). Like Annie Edson Taylor, a schoolteacher, who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel just so she can be famous (but it didn't work, she didn't get famous).
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"
