Louisiana orders every classroom to display Ten Commandments
http://bbc.com/news/articles/cp66xdxj0l3o
So that kids can stare at "Thou shalt not kill" as they're being shot.
http://bbc.com/news/articles/cp66xdxj0l3o
So that kids can stare at "Thou shalt not kill" as they're being shot.
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"