(October 19, 2023 at 11:37 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Apparently the entire Reformation (Protestantism) owes its existence to the outrage over the Catholic Church selling time off from Purgo.
And yet they are also in the sin scam business. Christianity is a business of convincing you that you suffer from the imaginary disease of sinning from which only they can heal you. So you get "healed" by going to mass every Sunday, buying their books, believing what they tell you, by giving them money.
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"
