RE: Stupid things religious people say
November 12, 2024 at 4:00 am
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2024 at 4:05 am by Fake Messiah.)
(November 12, 2024 at 3:17 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Powerful man in a powerful place, even nature must bow.
Of course, I have to spell it out to a Christian: The stupidity is the notion that God intervened to save a church but not 215+ people who got killed.
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"
