RE: Cutting off the Last Straw from Religion - Fear of Hell - Two Quick Reasons to let go
June 11, 2025 at 1:34 am
Heaven and Hell aren't places—they're literary weapons. Constructs designed to enforce obedience through fear of eternal punishment.
And judging by the hypocrisy of Christians, if Heaven was real, they'd be the last ones allowed in.
And judging by the hypocrisy of Christians, if Heaven was real, they'd be the last ones allowed in.
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"
