Tomorrow will be 30 years since the Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa to assassinate Salman Rushdie over a fictional book--banned in 13 countries.
Offended mobs firebombed bookstores, publishers and translators were murdered.
Offended mobs firebombed bookstores, publishers and translators were murdered.
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"