"It was then that I left all religion forever. When I realized that the synagogue had the list of the people that died in the year preceding, and they listed them not alphabetically and not chronologically, they listed them by how much money they had given. I said I want no more. I never went back into a Shul (which is strictly not true because I’ve gone to a couple of brisses and a couple of funerals)."
- Harlan Ellison
- Harlan Ellison
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"
