(July 21, 2022 at 6:25 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: I still recall his historic moon landing. I was in basic training at Ft. Gordon, GA at the time. My company was given the day off to watch the event on TV.
Apparently, everyone watched it that even the crime stopped for a few hours.
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"
