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Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 29, 2022 at 11:48 pm
Any suggestions?
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: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 29, 2022 at 11:57 pm
Jimmy Savile might be a good candidate. A devout Catholic knighted by the Pope, and likely one of the the most prolific sex offenders in recorded history.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 30, 2022 at 12:15 am
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I dunno, if the Spanish Inquisition is considered the worst proceeding enacted by Christianity, the it has to be... Michael Palin.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 30, 2022 at 12:48 am
I want to say Judas. But Judas had no choice. He did what the writer wrote.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 30, 2022 at 7:48 am
Charlemagne, for his mass hangings of 3,000 Anglo-Saxons for their refusal to convert to Christianity.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 30, 2022 at 7:51 am
The very first one who started this whole mess.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 30, 2022 at 11:14 am
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Jesus.
Or maybe Saint Augustine. His 'philosophy' of Heaven and Hell is responsible for a lot of the crusades.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 30, 2022 at 11:42 am
(April 30, 2022 at 8:18 am)Jehanne Wrote: (April 30, 2022 at 7:51 am)Foxaire Wrote: The very first one who started this whole mess.
That would have been the Apostle Paul; Jesus of Nazareth was fully Jewish.
Yeah, I’m good with that. Paul’s epistles are more or less directly responsible for everything that’s wrong with Christianity.
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RE: Who was the worst Christian in history?
April 30, 2022 at 2:20 pm
According to my mother, that would be me.
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