How to have fun in Vatican
Quote:A man said to believe he is the Archangel Michael drove through a hail of police gunfire at the Vatican after speeding past a checkpoint, spreading fear among pilgrims waiting to hear the Pope give his Sunday address.
He steered his BMW at high speed along the avenue leading up to St Peter’s Square before veering left around the columns flanking the square and into Piazza del Sant’Uffizio, where Swiss guards, fearing a terrorist attack, slammed shut the gates leading into the Vatican. Francis’s residence is close by.
Police officers in the piazza attempted to shoot the tyres of the BMW before it raced into a nearby street, where a police car blocked its path. The driver continued to press the accelerator, spinning the car’s wheels and creating a cloud of burnt rubber smoke until officers dragged him from behind the wheel.
He was named as Erjol Nako, 39, an Albanian with a record for drug dealing. Police were unable to say whether he was targeting the Vatican, but a former partner said he had recently become obsessed with religious mysticism. “He said he was the Archangel Michael and would cut off my head with a sword, just like the saint did to the devil,” she told Il Messaggero. In Christian teaching, the Archangel Michael battles and defeats the Devil when Jesus returns to Earth.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drive...-flwdwh3v2
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"
