My doctor sent me for a prostate exam at the hospital. I went, reluctantly, got called into the office, and patiently suffered through the very personal examination.
When the examining surgeon left, a nurse came in and asked, “Who the heck was that?”
When the examining surgeon left, a nurse came in and asked, “Who the heck was that?”
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"