RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
April 16, 2025 at 2:54 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2025 at 2:56 am by Fake Messiah.)
Decorating eggs was very popular in ancient (pre-Christian) cultures and it had religious symbolism. It was tied to cults that promised life after death where eggs symbolized rebirth, especially in the cults tied to resurrecting god of Dionysus (who also turned water into wine).
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"
