RE: Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism
June 19, 2023 at 5:36 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2023 at 5:38 am by Fake Messiah.)
Christianity's Contributions to Humanity: 300 years of Crusade wars; then centuries of wars between Protestants and Catholics; persecution and killing of Jews; persecution of scientists like Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, etc. including the burning of their books; over 90% of the population enslaved to work for the Catholic church and aristocracy; 95% of people illiterate; killing people because they were heretics; accusing women of witchcraft; slave trade; beating people for having sex... and I am tired.
Happy times.
Happy times.
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"
