They are experts in their field, but, nevertheless, it perhaps doesn't matter because it seems that people vote for politics over the economy. Like in Britain where voters ignored economists who insisted the UK would suffer from losing free trade with the European Union, and voted for Brexit.
Or Italy’s Giorgia Meloni who denounced consumerism and market capitalism while building a new nationalist movement based on identity—ethnic, religious, and cultural.
Or Jair Bolsonaro who promised returning the country to its Christian past, from which it had been led astray by cosmopolitans, leftists, and minorities.
Or Italy’s Giorgia Meloni who denounced consumerism and market capitalism while building a new nationalist movement based on identity—ethnic, religious, and cultural.
Or Jair Bolsonaro who promised returning the country to its Christian past, from which it had been led astray by cosmopolitans, leftists, and minorities.
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"
