(June 9, 2017 at 5:04 pm)JamieB Wrote: Christian best friend asks me to reconsider
Hey if any Christian asks me to reconsider or open my heart to Jesus I answer "sure, but only if you'd be willing to become a Hindu. You'd still get to heaven."
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"