(March 14, 2026 at 12:03 pm)Disagreeable Wrote: I'm a realist.
Oh, silly me, I thought you were a fantasist.
In other words, everyone thinks they are a realist when it comes to worldviews.
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"
