One would also presume that if some religion is going bankrupt that that is God's way of telling how that religion should stop existing.
But no.
It's really strange how many ways signs from God can be interpreted.
But no.
It's really strange how many ways signs from God can be interpreted.
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"