At least we get to see where the macho culture, that we are urged to be part of by clergy and Christian pundits, ultimately leads: men need to be Christian and "manly" so they can die as cannon fodder in some religious war convinced that they are fighting against Satan (embodied as effeminate and gay men) with Jesus on their side.
In Russia they literally have camps to make the "effeminate" men manly by making them chop wood, pray, and slaughter animals.
In Russia they literally have camps to make the "effeminate" men manly by making them chop wood, pray, and slaughter animals.
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"