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“Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.”

Book Religion Speech Foundation Censorship Attacking Heresy Prohibition Heretic Schism

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.”

Thinking Whole Religion Trouble Society Atheist Oneself Heretic Heist Society

Author:Aubrey Menen

“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 (Aquinas).”

Should Religion Church Heretic Augustine St Thomas

Author:Sam Harris

“Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.”

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Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.”

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.”

Needs War Seems Religion Turns Religious Prove Burning Stakes Persecution Heretic Demonic Religious Wars

Author:John Shelby Spong