(October 13, 2022 at 12:24 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I saw where one of the reasons for not giving the death penalty is that he has fetal alcohol syndrome.
One of the reasons was that by not wanting to give up their gun rights, this incident is something that people, as a society, are prepared to live with. I mean, imagine if he couldn't get his hands on an AR-15-style rifle, as is the case in the rest of the world.
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"