New documentary about Oliver Sacks. He really had parents who believed in him and groomed him to be a doctor, like his mom, who was a gynecologist, would bring home stillborn-deformed fetuses for him to dissect when he was 10 years old.
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"