(August 21, 2018 at 1:19 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: First lightning rods, now concrete rods. We's winnin'.
Thanks to Fake Messiah for picture.
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Yeah, talking about lightning rods and Christianity: Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod in 1753 was the first practical victory of science over a natural phenomenon, so decades afterward whenever an earthquake hit somewhere in the Christian world priests proclaimed it was a punishment for the sacrilege of using lightning rods to avert the wrath of God.
(p 112) https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplu...1X08000226
or
https://books.google.com/books?id=QlsSDA...&q&f=false
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"
