(March 13, 2023 at 11:55 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: Russia's geo-political power and status is being threatened, and NATO wants to encroach even closer to its' borders.
So NATO exists so countries could protect themselves from Russia, so Russia invaded Ukraine to protect themselves from Ukraine joining NATO thus validating the existence of NATO because if you are not in NATO, Russia will attack you. Not to mention that Ukraine did not plan to join NATO until the Russians invaded them.
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"
