"On the basis of pure experience, we can say that Christians - appealing to God, Jesus Christ and to the Bible - have committed and justified the most widely divergent and indeed mutually exclusive actions. Norms of human conduct which were regarded as glorious and the most sacred will of God by earlier followers of Jesus are condemned by present-day believers as diabolical delusions.
It is clearly possible - in the name of the God of the Bible - either to exalt or to reject the burning of witches, either to curse or to bless the Jews, either to force pagans to be baptised or to leave them full freedom of conscience, and to find the crusades either glorious or abominable."
Joachim Kahl - The Misery of Christianity
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