(July 3, 2025 at 7:12 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Catholicism's rules are strict but totally fair and just. People would do well to conduct themselves with a bit more decorum.
There is nothing just in punishing people for homosexuality, abortions, and having children out of wedlock; all while protecting pedophiles and performing human trafficking.
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"
