(March 11, 2016 at 1:27 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(March 11, 2016 at 3:36 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: And when you think about it are they really to blame?
Jury of their peers seemed to think so.
Many of us were taught strange things by our parents, most of us don't pay any attention to "it;s my mommy's fault" coming from a grown ass man. My moms a fuckin loon. I love her to death, she knows I think she's a loon. I sure as shit haven't been raising my children the way I was raised. I already know how that turns out.....
You're right, but the religious training functions that they teach you total bullshit and then expect you to be smart enough not to take it TOO seriously. Not to cut off your penis if you can't stop masturbating, or to have sex in a marriage although they'll teach you that St. Paul said that it's better for a married man to live like he's not married, or not be crazy enough and actually use contraception etc.
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"