(February 12, 2025 at 2:31 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: meanwhile we have a SoD no longer making demands like, "Crimea be returned to Ukraine" that will never be accepted.
How do you know what will or won't be accepted?
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"
