Yesterday I saw a (Catholic) nun walking by the Orthodox church. She kept looking at the church for a relatively long time and just passed by. In other words, she didn't cross herself. And if you know pious people, you know they always cross themselves when they walk by a church or even a crucifix, but to her this church was nothing. Not her brand of Jesus. I guess it was a success she didn't spit on the sidewalk for walking near such blasphemy.
These people are truly ridiculous.
These people are truly ridiculous.
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"
