Didn't Republicans shoot themselves in the foot by taking down Roe v Wade and leaving it to the individual states to decide about abortion because now voting for Republicans means automatically voting against abortion care? It seems now that they can hardly win anywhere because most people don't want to lose abortion rights although they may agree with some of their other policies.
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"