(August 4, 2022 at 7:03 am)Ahriman Wrote: Authoritarianism is better then personal freedom. Regular people don't have the intelligence to govern themselves.
So are you saying that Hitler, Stalin, and Fidel Castro are smarter than other people in their country and therefore get to order other people who to be and what to do?
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"
