President Gerald Ford never should have pardoned ex-President Nixon before Nixon was even indicted.
Although Ford was well-intentioned, this action threatened to encourage later Presidents (and one in particular) to believe that they were above the law.
Although Ford was well-intentioned, this action threatened to encourage later Presidents (and one in particular) to believe that they were above the law.
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"
