It's that time of the year when Mr. Olympia is going on. When the top athletes of the world gather in Las Vegas and, not unlike in any other sport, they measure to see who has taken more steroids and abused illegal substances and proclaim the winner
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"
