(August 14, 2021 at 8:45 pm)WinterHold Wrote: the American government uses the loose, ambiguous term "terrorism" to stain its foes or anybody it doesn't like
Mmm, no, every nation in the world calls the bombing of Hiroshima a war action, only you call it terrorism. Nor did the American government call Japanese or Nazi soldiers terrorists although it didn't like them.
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"