(October 24, 2022 at 9:38 pm)Fireball Wrote:(October 24, 2022 at 8:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Imagine knowing that a child is being molested and not doing anything to stop it. Or if your religion requires you to be passive about child abuse, then your religion isn't worth following.
Somebody ought to bone that bishop up the ass and ask him not to report it. Let's see how he feels about that.
Or, someone should go to the confession booth and say "Father, I've been stealing money from the church," and you would see the priest jumping and punching him "You son of a bitch! How could you! Shame on you! Give it back!"
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"
