A rabbi, a lawyer, and a priest are aboard the sinking Titanic.
They rush to the lifeboat and as they get in, the rabbi says: "What about the children?"
The lawyer says: "Screw the children!"
The priest says, "Do you think we have time?"
They rush to the lifeboat and as they get in, the rabbi says: "What about the children?"
The lawyer says: "Screw the children!"
The priest says, "Do you think we have time?"
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"