(February 8, 2020 at 2:56 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Yeah, but we need actual good picks to pick those judges. Not just "republican, or republican lite". We can't force the dems to give us good options, if we keep settling on "I'm not quite as bad as that other guy, though I take money from the same donors as he does".
Maybe then the whole office of the president should be removed because it makes most people angry, plus, without the president, people could perhaps concentrate more on what their senators and congressmen are doing--who are actual lawmakers. I mean in the last two years Democrats in Congress brought laws on health care, voting rights, gun control, education, and so much more. The House passed ALL of them, but are sitting in the Senate because Republican senators don't do anything.
And what is the equivalent of president in the ancient Rome on which US democracy was built? Probably emperor, and Romans also didn't like their emperors very much, nor did they find much use for them. They mostly organized wars and pretended to be gods.
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"
