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RE: It's A Quote
July 12, 2022 at 3:34 pm
It is advantageous for slaves and masters, fit to be such by nature, that one be the master, and the other the slave. And so there can be friendship between them, since the association of both in what is advantageous for each is the essence of friendship.
- Thomas Aquinas
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"
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RE: It's A Quote
July 12, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Allegorical, I'm sure.
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RE: It's A Quote
July 12, 2022 at 4:09 pm
(July 12, 2022 at 3:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: It is advantageous for slaves and masters, fit to be such by nature, that one be the master, and the other the slave. And so there can be friendship between them, since the association of both in what is advantageous for each is the essence of friendship.
- Thomas Aquinas
Nudger beat me to the "allegorical" comment. You could also expect words and phrases like "bondsman, not really slave", "kidnapped, not really slave", "Jubilee", "cultural context" and "chose to be enslaved", among others. Anything other than just admitting that the bible endorses owning other humans (and Aquinas does as well).
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RE: It's A Quote
July 13, 2022 at 8:06 am
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RE: It's A Quote
July 14, 2022 at 5:27 pm
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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"
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RE: It's A Quote
July 15, 2022 at 5:18 am
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July 15, 2022 at 6:44 am
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RE: It's A Quote
July 15, 2022 at 10:45 am
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I got nothing.
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July 15, 2022 at 4:48 pm
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RE: It's A Quote
July 16, 2022 at 6:44 am
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