(September 8, 2022 at 11:46 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If I ever saw a man next to me praying to a god to save him I'd box him over the ears until he came back to his senses and picked up his weapon...but here's the thing..I never did. Never once did I see a christian soldier praying to god when he should be working for uncle sam. I guess it must happen somewhere sometimes...but, ideally, that shit gets handled before or after action.
Ha! I just watched a documentary about Samuel Fuller who said that soldiers never pray during battle (he was in WW2).
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"
