(December 18, 2023 at 2:18 am)Ahriman Wrote: Just as a quick aside, you know that little line above the A in Māori? Yeah, why is that necessary?
It's a macron so that you pronounce the word Māori with respect, and not how Christians (missionaries) pronounce it as "savage pagans".
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"