RE: Russia's Putin wants traditional marriage and God in constitution
March 4, 2020 at 7:44 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2020 at 7:50 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Putin is rediscovering how his predecessors manipulated masses: with religion. Because you can be the most brutal dictator, but as long as you claim that you are for Jesus, people believe that the bad and oppressive stuff is good for them.
Like Ivan the Terrible who built the Saint Basil church and then ordered that it's architects eyes be plucked out so that they can't make more beautiful buildings than the one in red square.
Like Ivan the Terrible who built the Saint Basil church and then ordered that it's architects eyes be plucked out so that they can't make more beautiful buildings than the one in red square.
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"
