Is it me, or does Christian apologetics not just boil down to a revised mafia protection racket?
“You don’t have to believe in Jesus, I guess—“ (wink, wink) “—that’s a nice soul ya got there. Be a real shame if something were to happen to it…”
“You don’t have to believe in Jesus, I guess—“ (wink, wink) “—that’s a nice soul ya got there. Be a real shame if something were to happen to it…”
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"
