(December 30, 2021 at 7:09 pm)Brian37 Wrote: In reality, my mom who could have lost her public school teaching career, had a different policy with me. She allowed me as a teen to drink, as long as I was at home in the basement. Looking back at it now, it was well intended, but dead wrong. If she had been caught letting me do what I did she could have lost her career and pension.
Yeah, it would have been better if she taught her son grammar than letting him get drunk.
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"