(August 21, 2021 at 11:36 am)Mashmont Wrote: Let's talk about great saints like St. John Bosco who turned thousands of juvenile delinquent boys into productive citizens without using punishment as a tool. This is truly an amazing feat. And he did it through love, calm reasoned discussion, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and the Eurcharist.
And that's why Salesians of Don Bosco have the biggest numbers of child molesters in their order than any other order in the Catholic Church
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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"