RE: Atheist Evangelism
November 1, 2023 at 6:01 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2023 at 6:01 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 1, 2023 at 5:58 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(November 1, 2023 at 5:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Ok, but were you not written off by your parents when you got pregnant because of the Catholic Church? Because of the prejudices they taught your parents to have for women in these situations?My mother was not then, nor is she now, a Catholic.
The issue was not living up to socio/economic expectations in my parents' peer group.
Nevertheless, there were also many pregnant women in Ireland where they got abandoned by their Catholic parents and the Church would locked them up in a washery and sold their kids.
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"
