Actor Alan Cumming made an interesting observation: “Things like the separation of church and state [in the United States] are just a joke. If the president did not end his speech by saying ‘God bless America’, there would be an outcry.”
Let's face it, he’s not wrong.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books...-1.4723825
Let's face it, he’s not wrong.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books...-1.4723825
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"