"Religion is a fundamentally flawed worldview which blocks social progress, stands in the way of human and racial equality and is an obstacle to scientific progress and objective truth. After all and after so many centuries, if there was any credibility to the various claims made by the world's major religions to be conduits for the will of God, they surely wouldn't all be in their current mess."
Ian R. MacLeod
Ian R. MacLeod
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"
