Servant to science
"Lifting the birth-control ban would have the effect of calling morality into question and showing the fallibility of the Church. The Vatican would be seen as a servant to science, willing to reverse itself with each new scientific discovery." - Pope Paul VI
"Lifting the birth-control ban would have the effect of calling morality into question and showing the fallibility of the Church. The Vatican would be seen as a servant to science, willing to reverse itself with each new scientific discovery." - Pope Paul VI
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"
