TheWhiteMarten Wrote:And I spent many an hour debating what I believed to be "racists," "Nazis," "fascists," "Christian nationalists" on why they were wrong - *many* an hour.... and yet after 17 years, I finally started to realize something - these people I defended were the same one's calling for the end of my nation, the end of culture, the end of my life;
What a lovely story of a guy becoming a Nazi.
TheWhiteMarten Wrote:the hand I offered in friendship spit in, slapped, beaten, stabbed...
I can understand people who spit on Nazis, as well as beat Nazis.
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"
