When Sinéad O’Connor tore up a picture of the Pope in 1992, over 70,000 children had been sexually abused by Catholic priests and brothers in Ireland.
Demonised by the State, the media and the Catholic Church, when so many stayed silent, she refused. She was the truth before many of us knew where to look.
Demonised by the State, the media and the Catholic Church, when so many stayed silent, she refused. She was the truth before many of us knew where to look.
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"
