(June 28, 2021 at 7:00 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Same church wouldn't baptize my child...born after those two by a couple years...dad wasn't quite as into hitting the hip for the collection plate.
Ha, yes, you are very perceptive. Michael Moore came to the same conclusion when he was in the seminary
From his autobiography
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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"