(October 31, 2022 at 10:05 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 13, 2021 at 10:04 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:
God is saving up for a starship.
Yeah, that would be an interesting idea for religion. You say to people that after they die we all go to the fleet of spaceships that will take humans to some other galaxy and then you sell them positions, like if they don't buy your books/ manuals on how to run a spaceship then they will be ensigns, but if they buy more and take courses then they will be captains and even admirals.
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"