RE: The Last Movie You Watched
February 20, 2023 at 2:04 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2023 at 2:05 pm by Fake Messiah.)
I tried watching "Ben Hur" from the 50s and I can't get past the scene at the "beginning" where Hur is giving one of his women slaves to some guy to be married, and she is basically crying because he is such a great slaveowner so she doesn't want to stop being his slave. I mean wtf? Am I supposed to root for this guy for three hours? "He is a cool guy who has slaves". All he wants is to go home to his slaves, and Jesus himself helps him get reunited with his slaves in this heartwarming story.
I don't know what am I missing here. Maybe Boru can explain it to me.
I don't know what am I missing here. Maybe Boru can explain it to me.
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"