And now imagine you wrote your fanfiction about how Diana Ewing visited you and you went on a date and had sex and you claimed it was all true—would it not look sad? But because you claim she's an alien from outer space it's somehow not pathetic.
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"
