(October 5, 2023 at 8:35 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: I like how we do it in America. I just stopped going to mass, stopped dropping money in the basket, and ignored the mailers from the Archdiocese of Seattle begging for money until they gave up.
Especially since in some countries, the Catholic Church just takes money from the government budget.
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"