"When I went to the Vatican, I thought that it was one of the most frightening places I’ve ever seen. We were in Rome for Blues Brothers 2000, and I just got the history of the Church. You think back to those corrupt popes, when they were sleeping with their sisters and daughters, and the power of these statues. I imagined these poor farmers and poor Italian people coming in over the hundreds of years and seeing these massive looming marble statues and then going away and giving half their fortune to the Church. I absolutely believe the Vatican works on the scale of a separate government, a separate country, and is capable of tremendous crimes."
- Dan Aykroyd
- Dan Aykroyd
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"
