(August 9, 2017 at 5:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I consider members of all christian denominations christians as well.
Really you do? I mean there are some real stinkers out there like KKK, but OK I do get if you don't consider them real Christians; but still what about Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Snake handling churches in Appalachia or even J.K. Rowlingsesque Church of the Potter Christ? They're all Christians, he?
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"