RE: Stupid things religious people say
October 7, 2024 at 12:26 am
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2024 at 12:27 am by Fake Messiah.)
They finally get it.
Quote:Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to Belgium, Franco Coppola, on Thursday after “unacceptable” comments by Pope Frances on abortion.
“It is absolutely unacceptable for a foreign head of state to make such statements about democratic decision-making in our country,” De Croo said during a session in the Chamber of Representatives. “We do not need lessons on how our parliamentarians democratically approve laws. Fortunately, the time when the church dictated laws in our country is long gone.”
VUB Rector Jan Danckaert said the pope’s statement “not only insults the doctors who perform abortions, but also Belgium and its population.”
“It is actually unheard of that a foreign head of state — because that is what Pope Francis is — assumes the right to attack a law of another and moreover democratic country. And to accuse the doctors who apply this law in practice of murder,” Danckaert wrote.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-abo...y-belgium/
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"
