Hindu people in Pakistan had a busy weekend: they went on a pilgrimage to a volcano which they fed with coconuts, and then they rushed to a holy cave to pray. All that so they could appease the goddess of matrimonial happiness
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"
