(July 9, 2023 at 1:47 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: whereas Christianity can promise us Eternal Happiness, in God's Palace in Heaven, with Jesus and Mary, with Angels and Saints, with singing and dancing, with rejoicing and love, then it's perfectly rational and reasonable to choose Christ's Promise and Christ's Happiness.
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"