(December 28, 2023 at 11:24 am)SimpleCaveman Wrote: Thanks, Boru. Yes. And it has two sides of tragedy. Those who get millions stolen, of course, but also the thousands who are made slaves to do the scams.
But you do get scammed every day by religion and you are also spreading that scam.
I guess my favorite scam is when I get a paper letter or a message online that I have inherited lots of money but I need to send money to get that insurance. Or recently I got a message from a supposed millionaire who is dying of cancer asking me if he can give me his money.
Or take scams in the gym. There was this ripped guy in the gym who started approaching me with his bits of advice on how to work out better - I knew immediately what was to happen. And, as clockwork, three sessions later he started selling me this very cheap protein powder that is, in his words, "all-natural". Then I told him that I am also selling a protein fluid that is so natural that he can suck it directly from nature through a meaty straw. I never saw him again.
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"
