(December 15, 2024 at 10:34 am)brewer Wrote: Couldn't that be said for wasting time doing anything?
I guess not because wasting time in church is different because it's excruciatingly boring. In other places like waiting rooms or banks or toilets, you can at least look at your phone or talk to other people.
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"
