I was recently reading Ronald Reagan's biography and there are many things that belong in this topic. Like
Well, Watt, it has been 40 years and he still hasn't come.
Quote:The interior secretary [James Watt], a conservative Christian, suggested to a House committee that long-term conservation was a waste of time. “I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord comes,” he said. Watt lambasted his opponents as un-American. “I never use the words Democrats and Republicans,” he declared. “It’s liberals and Americans.”
Well, Watt, it has been 40 years and he still hasn't come.
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"
