RE: Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism
June 22, 2023 at 4:46 pm
(June 22, 2023 at 4:35 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: And another non sequitur.
The servitude in Biblical times was more comparable to serfdom, as I mentioned, not chattel slavery properly so called. You obviously did not read the history or sources that I mentioned.
And there you go, this dumbass is defending slavery while saying that Christians saved people from slavery.
How bad serfdom was is that peasants constantly rebelled because they were horribly exploited. When Martin Luther came they hoped that the new Christianity will save them from the evil Catholic Church. But no. Luther quickly wrote two books how peasants are satanic and they were slaughtered, maybe even up to 100 thousand people.
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"
