(December 15, 2018 at 2:11 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Go be an atheist in your home, go have churches like the theists do, or whatever. But we don't need your nonsense forced on people anymore than anybody else's nonsense. Be a friendly atheist, be an atheist who makes moral decisions, be an atheists who helps people, but don't be some nutjob atheist raging at the rest of the world who thinks differently or try to force anybody to join your cause against their will. That's what happens when it gets injected into society.
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"