RE: Stupid things religious people say
January 24, 2026 at 1:13 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2026 at 1:14 am by Fake Messiah.)
Talking about fairies, there's is a book called "Table Talk" about the life and sayings of Martin Luther written by people who knew him. That book claims that Luther encountered a boy in Dessau who had severe intellectual disability, probably Prader-Willi Syndrome. Luther described the child as a massa carnis (mass of flesh) who did nothing but eat and excrete.
Luther argued the child had no soul and was a substitute left by fairies—a changeling.
He advised the Prince of Anhalt to drown the boy in the Moldau River to rid the community of the presence of fairies. But the Prince did not follow the advice.
Luther argued the child had no soul and was a substitute left by fairies—a changeling.
He advised the Prince of Anhalt to drown the boy in the Moldau River to rid the community of the presence of fairies. But the Prince did not follow the advice.
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"
