(September 1, 2022 at 7:45 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: Okay Aegon, what is the nature of religion?
Is it good, bad or neutral?
It's bad. I mean, look at yourself. You believe that Earth is flat because of religion. That can not be good.
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"
