(May 21, 2024 at 2:49 pm)brewer Wrote: I suppose hoping for an H5N1 jump to humans thru milk is a bit vicious.
This reminds me that Abraham Lincoln's mother and a few siblings died by contracting Brucellosis from drinking raw milk - because this was the everyday life before people discovered pasteurization.
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"
