(January 31, 2018 at 5:17 pm)shadow Wrote:(January 31, 2018 at 3:40 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I think that we must face the fact/ reality that some people simply want to be conned.
I... never actually thought of that, but I think you're right.
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"