(April 22, 2023 at 7:51 am)Belacqua Wrote: It looks as though the consensus here is that "religiousness" makes a person unable to participate in democracy in an intelligent way.
The study in question from Copenhagen and Lund is not about people being religious, but about keeping religion separated from the government.
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"
