wow! Trump really humiliated those federal workers: they're crying, they're starving, they're embarrassed in front of their kids while Trump's people are telling lies to the press like that these workers are enjoying their 'vacation' and that they'll get that money once they return to work. - I mean talk about "Let them eat cake" moment.
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"