When Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins returned from the Moon they had to go through customs and declare moon rocks, moon dust, and other lunar samples at the Honolulu Airport in Hawaii on July 24, 1969.
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"
