(May 2, 2024 at 8:44 am)Belacqua Wrote: One thing that's always frustrating: attacks from the Palestinian side (whether by Hamas or simply spontaneous individual outbursts) are always presented in the US media as unprovoked examples of Muslim evil.
Yeah, silly us. We fell again for that wicked Western media. In reality, Hamas is just defending themselves, just like Putin is defending himself in Ukraine.
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"
