I presume that Pope Benedict XVI retired prematurely because he was losing his faith. In his address at Auschwitz, which was not long, he asked no fewer than three times: “Where was God? Where was God when this was happening?”
- Werner Herzog
- Werner Herzog
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"