RE: Stupid things religious people say
6 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 6 hours ago by Fake Messiah.)
"I just heard future aborted fetuses cry"
A GOP lawmaker, Nate Schatzline, says he entered politics after hearing what he believed was a baby crying—until, he says, God told him it was actually the sound of aborted fetuses:
I was out on a prayer run one day. I was praying for my students, for our church. And about that time, I heard the sound of a baby crying. I took out my headphones. I look around. I was in the desert. We lived in California at the time, and now we're back in God's country in Texas.
I looked around, couldn't find anything, so I kept jogging. About a mile later, I heard the same baby crying. And all of a sudden the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, that's the sound of the unborn that are going to die if you don't run for office and protect the unborn. And it was this moment where I was woken up.
A GOP lawmaker, Nate Schatzline, says he entered politics after hearing what he believed was a baby crying—until, he says, God told him it was actually the sound of aborted fetuses:
I was out on a prayer run one day. I was praying for my students, for our church. And about that time, I heard the sound of a baby crying. I took out my headphones. I look around. I was in the desert. We lived in California at the time, and now we're back in God's country in Texas.
I looked around, couldn't find anything, so I kept jogging. About a mile later, I heard the same baby crying. And all of a sudden the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, that's the sound of the unborn that are going to die if you don't run for office and protect the unborn. And it was this moment where I was woken up.
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"
