I am reading "Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany" and one interesting thing is how a regular army officer shuns theology and tops a priest.
So there you go. Would this typical Christan theology ruin these men's and women's lives or not? Probably so, and yet these people are still roaming around giving unqualified advice.
Quote:Several weeks after the Christmas party at Glatton, a few local girls showed up at the office of the commanding officer. They had gotten drunk and pregnant at the party and couldn’t remember “what had happened—or with whom.” The commanding officer organized a relief fund, with each soldier in camp ordered to contribute $10 a week until the guilty parties came forward. The men eventually turned themselves in to the battalion chaplain, who somehow talked them into agreeing to marry the girls. “No dice,” declared the commanding officer. “Those guys were drunk and didn’t know they were going to make themselves fathers—better that they’re moved out of sight.” The guilty parties were transferred to another post, and the girls, one of them barely sixteen, never saw them again.
So there you go. Would this typical Christan theology ruin these men's and women's lives or not? Probably so, and yet these people are still roaming around giving unqualified advice.
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"
