RE: What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity
July 27, 2023 at 11:54 am
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2023 at 12:03 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(July 27, 2023 at 11:22 am)GrandizerII Wrote: Besides the literature, art and music and hospitals it has inspired, individual people themselves have changed for the better because of it.
When it comes to literature and music, it is a thing of personal taste. Maybe someone likes Christian bands and Left Behind books, but I find it to be trash. Even when it comes to historical stuff. There are some nice Christian statues and paintings, but so are pagan ones.
And Christian hospitals are businesses and are places where they torture people and fire doctors because they break religious taboos, and it is hard for me to focus on patients who don't get tortured because that's not how it goes.
(July 27, 2023 at 11:22 am)GrandizerII Wrote: And there are some nice morals and philosophies to find in Christian works.
But probably not toward Jews, gays, heretics, peasants, and some others.
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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"
