(November 22, 2024 at 1:30 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Let's try it another way; I'm a big fan of analogies, so let's try that route.
Both are water, but it is not the nature of a being water that makes them dangerous; I don't view people as inherently dangerous simply because they have physical differences than me and that's frankly a very dangerous manner of thinking.
Rather it's their behaviors and the situations they are placed in.
Sure, here is your analogy.
![[Image: Anal.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/KzTNHrNL/Anal.jpg)
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"
