RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 1:30 am
(April 17, 2022 at 1:00 am)Belacqua Wrote:(April 17, 2022 at 12:53 am)Ahriman Wrote: Yeah that's not child abuse.
I agree with you.
I think it's a very foolish thing to say.
Not so foolish thing to say, actually.
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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"