America is a mess because Christian nationalists have been "way too tolerant": "We need to be a lot more intolerant because Jesus was intolerant and violent. He called people names. This idea that Christians should tolerate non Christians comes from Satan. Going to church every Sunday should be required by law, again."
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"
