(March 27, 2024 at 8:56 am)Belacqua Wrote: In the world as it currently exists, a lot of people motivate and structure their charity through religion.
Yeah, lots of people donate to megachurches but it is questionable if that is really charity since they are donating to millionaires who spend most of it on themselves.
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"
