Belacqua Wrote:First, I do not support Russia's actions, and I don't think that Putin is wonderful.
So you don't support Russia but you keep justifying their war, like when you keep blaming Ukraine for the war (eg. that they brought the war to themselves for supposedly getting "westernized"), you are comparing the Russian situation of the war in Ukraine to that when Napoleon invaded Russia, you keep speaking about Putin as the only sane person in the conflict, and so on. So cut the crap.
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"
