Pope Francis says violence and extremism are “betrayals of religion” and that hatred of others is the “greatest blasphemy.” Um, ok I guess, but has he ever heard of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine? Or Catherine Emmerich who he is supposed to canonize, or Christianity in general like when popes organized Crusades? Or maybe he is ready to denounce those popes who warmongered people into going Crusading?
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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"