American exceptionalism deserves some celebration!
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Happy July 4th!!
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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"
Happy birthday, America. You had a good run.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
It took me a couple of glances to "get" the meaning of the photo above (recently, I went to the optometrist and am now, at age 54, nearsighted.) It is ironic, though, in United States history, that America did not turn into a "Christian nation" until the 1820s, or, at least according to the historians that I have read. After the Second Great Awakening is when Christian evangelicals started infusing more and more into the political sphere, but, it was not until the late 1800s when high schools became more common that the clash over the Theory of Evolution came to the forefront. The whole "State's rights" (at least when such suited their interests -- see Dred Scott) mantra was probably sufficient to placate most Evangelicals, and the direct election of United States Senators helped to insure against populist candidates. Likewise, the deists of the Enlightenment were mostly in academia and understood that a direct threat to the Evangelicals could have dire consequences. As the Supreme Court was allowing greater independence for state colleges, most academics probably had little interest in trying to infuse society with secular ideas and risk a populist backlash in the process.
It's more about how women are losing their independence.
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"
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