(March 26, 2018 at 1:30 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I know others make a big deal about character but I don't see the personal lives of politicians having a whole lot of effect on actual governance.
No way, so "private life" doesn't matter. Then I must ask you this: would you vote for a guy and support him as a president if he supported same politics you did except that he is gay and married to a guy? I mean as a politician he has same viewpoints as you do but in private life he is different and is inseminating his husband on daily basis.
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"
