(March 29, 2025 at 10:26 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Wakes were a big thing in town too. I was marched past more dead bodies than I care to think about, some of them people I didn't even know when they were alive. Then there was the sitting in the funeral home for a couple days when my grandparents died because our family was so small we had to bring in the grandkids to meet the mourners.
Super creepy but also expected.
Wake? This kid died in 2006. How long do these wakes last?
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"
