It seems that Issac Asimov received some Chick tracts in his times:
Quote:It is a little irritating when I am sent little tracts touting some sectarian belief in the fond hope that this will make me "see the light." I don't know why it never occurs to such people that my views are fixed firmly and are not to be swayed by little tracts.
Sometimes I am irritated into answering. Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?" I never received an answer, of course.
Isaac Asimov
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"
