Spider Webb, a renowned tattoo artist known for his intricate designs and for his efforts to overturn the law that made tattooing illegal in New York City for decades, died on July 2 at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 78.
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"
