(February 5, 2024 at 10:33 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I would think that people who want to counter Putin or Xi would at least want someone who can speak coherently.
People do want to counter Putin and that is why they don't want Trump who is suffering from dementia. And Trump is also something that Putin and other enemies of the US want because Trump is so incompetent that he wants to start a civil war because of what used to be policy issues like tax rates, healthcare for poor people, immigration, and so on. These are all issues for which Trump wants Americans to point weapons at each other and this is what Putin, Xi, and other dictators were hoping for. Putin has hit a grand slam with Trump.
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"
