RE: What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity
July 29, 2023 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2023 at 1:07 pm by Fake Messiah.)
That was the language of the upper Victorian upper class of 19th-century imperial England. Darwin was a more moral guy than Christians who enslaved Africans, force them into baptisms, and gave them Christian names.
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"
