RE: Hello to all
November 29, 2023 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2023 at 5:07 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 29, 2023 at 5:02 pm)SimpleCaveman Wrote: And it’s because we were in a Christian culture that those crimes are inhumane.
Nope.
(November 29, 2023 at 5:02 pm)SimpleCaveman Wrote: What Romans did to people they conquered was in the same direction, even if they weren’t as extensive.
When Christians came to power the world did not become suddenly more moral. There was still slavery, child abandonment, and wars. In fact, for Christianity to become the main religion in Rome, other religions were persecuted with capital punishment.
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"
