Belacqua Wrote:From this, he concludes that the Soviet atrocities were motivated by something other than simple lack.
Soviet atrocities were motivated by a thing called communism - by the paranoia of their leader, Stalin. Thus the main group of people being persecuted in the USSR were other communists who were suspected of not being loyal to Stalin.
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"
