Yeah, how is the whole “NATO imperialism” concept even supposed to work? Like, NATO… doesn’t conquer countries and force them to join, so… how is that supposed to be imperialist? Countries aren’t joining NATO because NATO is blackmailing to bomb them. Countries are joining it to make sure that they’ll be better defended if, say, a neighboring ex-empire decided to suddenly announce that they’re not a real state and start bombing their cities.
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"
