“I would like to believe in God so that I could thank him, but I just believe in Billy Wilder. So thank you, Billy Wilder.”
-Fernando Trueba, from his Oscar speeech for “Belle Epoque.”
-Fernando Trueba, from his Oscar speeech for “Belle Epoque.”
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"
