Slava Ukraini!Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred
Slava Ukraini!Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred
"The story so far: As usual, Ginger and I are engaged in our quest to find out what the hell is going on and save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible." - Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
“ Well hell just froze over. Because CM Punk is back in the WWE.” - Jcogginsa.
“You can take the boy outta the mom’s basement, but you can’t take the mom’s basement outta the boy!” - LA Knight.
"Revel in What You Are." Bray Wyatt.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Anyone who runs for, or holds, a public office that is meant to represent ALL of the people, but who put their religious dogma ahead of the good of the nation (REGARDLESS of whether that nation adheres to your dogma) should be removed from office and barred from running again. They’ve betrayed their oath to defend America by putting it behind their devotion to a magic book of faerie tales.
Religious extremists should not be allowed to run for office.
Period.
Roy Moore was twice Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, so it's a reminder that this is not a respected legal body.
Their entire argument that is not about making policy but interpreting the state constitution is undercut by the reference to religion.
Hamas using Palestinians as human shields should not be a cheat code.
First I've heard that explanation.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Republicans want us to be a 'Christian Nationalist' country. Alito just recently spoke out against Obergefell.
They're coming for the hard-earned rights and protections that have been afforded to those not straight, white, and cis male.
If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend Michele Goldberg’s KINGDOM COMING: THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM. I read it twenty years ago, almost, and she researches the origins of Dominionism, the Seven Mountains theology that laid the groundwork for it, and the people who are pushing it. She interviews fundamentalists, and manages to maintain a relatively neutral tone in her interactions, which let her get more information.
Fascinating, as someone who watched my Baptist church go from a church that taught God’s love and Jesus’ sacrifice for us all to a church that valued prosperity and taking over America for Jesus. I WATCHED my church fall to Dominionist bullshit, and had to sit through an altar call and a prosperity doctrine sermon at my grandfather’s funeral. My aunt, mom, cousins and I all told them that if they pulled that **** at my gramma’s funeral, there would be a riot.
‘Christian’ extremists have wrenched the steering wheel away from Christ’s message and handed it to Mammon Trump, because they are witnessing their attendance numbers dropping, they are watching as the world moves past our need for magic faerie tale books that tell us how to act (while repeatedly being used to justify atrocity). They are seeing their political party consume itself. And they are desperate to enact their final solution - turning America into a ‘christian’ theocracy by any means necessary - before their generation dies out and the rest of us can finally get to work fixing the stuff the Boomer generation (#NotAllBoomers…) destroyed in their greed, lust, gluttony, pride, laziness, envy, and anger…
Last edited by zinderel; 02-20-2024 at 06:32 PM.
Conservatism over democracy.