(August 31, 2023 at 10:19 pm)Lek Wrote: It's funny that in this country where we are free to worship, people are leaving the churches in droves. In China where they are persecuted and forced to worship underground the church is growing in
leaps and bounds.
And that is why priests and pastors lie to people that they are being persecuted even in countries where they are not. Like that woke culture, gays, trans, Rock and Roll, immigrants, and whatnot are persecuting them. Heck, Catholicism comes already with a bunch of invented people who were persecuted and even died for Christianity.
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"