(April 6, 2024 at 7:34 am)Belacqua Wrote: in the same way that candy canes are associated with Christmas.
Christmas is known to be full of pagan symbolism and tradition, so you are really messing up your point.
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"
