Belacqua Wrote:I think it's more relevant to the current situation if we look at the US invasion of Afghanistan
That is a pointless comparison because the United States never attempted to conquer Afghanistan and incorporate it as the 51st state.
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"
