Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:43 PM
Marius25 (2,350 posts)
How long are we going to continue letting Christian Fascists
to destroy America?
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/florida-governor-signs-dont-say-gay-bill-surrounded-kids-holding-anti-lgbtq-signs/ I'm so fed up with this crap and they keep getting away with it. It feels like we're on the verge of another Civil War.
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Marius25 | Mar 2022 | OP |
msongs | Mar 2022 | #1 | |
overleft | Mar 2022 | #2 | |
Marius25 | Mar 2022 | #4 | |
Mariana | Mar 2022 | #3 | |
Elessar Zappa | Mar 2022 | #7 | |
Mariana | Mar 2022 | #9 | |
Budi | Mar 2022 | #5 | |
Missn-Hitch | Mar 2022 | #6 | |
LastDemocratInSC | Mar 2022 | #8 | |
usonian | Mar 2022 | #10 |
Response to Marius25 (Original post)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:50 PM
msongs (65,533 posts)
1. they've been at it for 2000 yrs, billions killed nt
Response to Marius25 (Original post)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:54 PM
overleft (320 posts)
2. They are not Christian Fascists. They are religous fascists.
Nothing the evangelicals do has anything to do with Christ Jesus's teaching.
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Response to overleft (Reply #2)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:55 PM
Marius25 (2,350 posts)
4. They're still Christians. That's the no true scotsman fallacy.
Response to Marius25 (Original post)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:54 PM
Mariana (14,575 posts)
3. As long as Christians are the majority of the voters, I suppose. nt.
Response to Mariana (Reply #3)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 04:51 PM
Elessar Zappa (10,875 posts)
7. Evangelicals are only about 20% of the population and falling every year.
They’re loud but they’re not in the majority.
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Response to Elessar Zappa (Reply #7)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:06 PM
Mariana (14,575 posts)
9. The majority of Christian voters cast their ballots for Trump in 2016.
Let's not pretend it's only Evangelical Christians who support Trump. He got 58% of the Protestants, 52% of the Catholics, and 61% of the Mormons (if you consider them to be Christian). He could not have taken office without their votes, and they should not be deprived of their fair share of the credit for his disastrous presidency.
I don't know what the numbers were for 2020, but I doubt it was much different. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/ ![]() |
Response to Marius25 (Original post)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 04:27 PM
Budi (15,325 posts)
5. Never help a Republican get elected, would be a good start.
2016 was the fuck up of all fuck ups.
The Supreme Court was handed over to the Christo Fascists. Warnings be damned. |
Response to Marius25 (Original post)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 04:50 PM
Missn-Hitch (1,383 posts)
6. I really do hate to be a downer, but as Jesus said,
It is finished.
The theocratic fascists are well positioned for the upcoming elections. We will take it until we can take no more. |
Response to Marius25 (Original post)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 04:58 PM
LastDemocratInSC (3,119 posts)
8. And they want more exemptions to civil rights laws from the USSC.
That's the step that can truly empower them. They want a special class of citizenship based on their religious beliefs that will allow them to openly discriminate against other citizens. A license to hurt others. They won't stop with one or a few exemptions, they want enough so that they are actually putting those with whom they disagree into a virtual class by exclusion.
They say that everyone is born a wicked sinner and when fully enabled by court decisions they plan to show us the harm that wicked sinners can inflict on others. |
Response to Marius25 (Original post)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:28 PM
usonian (4,954 posts)
10. I get it. They're CINO's. Christians in name only.
And it really ought to be up to their "leaders" to figure this out, but their leaders are hungry for secular power (so who will tell THEM?)
You might read or skim THE ENCHANTMENTS OF MAMMON How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity Eugene McCarraher These people are completely sold out. The only counter to this that I see is from The Signal Press https://signalpress.blogspot.com And nobody's going to listen to someone telling them .... here, from lees1975 https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016298259 It's a standard practice among some Evangelicals, those that are more prone to follow right wing politics than Biblical doctrine, to twist things out of their original context, misquote, exaggerate or ignore the original thought completely to make a point when someone points out that they're not being consistent with their own Biblical doctrine. And congregational authority makes it hard for pastors who know the truth to actually preach it, or point out errors in interpretation because members of the congregation can simply fire him. So, it's a closed system, even information sources (you know what those are) and has effects similar to cult and addictive behavior (You will recognize them from books by Anne Wilson Schaef ... I recognized all my previous psychotic bosses, reading her books.) Well, that's not the Good Shepherd I learned about as a kid. Seems he turned into a bloodthirsty, vengeful and sadistic killer. Of course, believing such horseshit gives politicians a basis to behave in wacko ways they do, given no check other than being OUT OF POWER. So, let me quote Ibram X. Kendi (again) from his epilogue to "Stamped from the Beginning". This is obviously framed around racism but racism is the engine that runs the repubs. Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable. Just deny them power. Pass laws that safeguard rights, unbreakable by a partisan court. They are a last gasp of a demographic that is disappearing. That's why the insanity. Shameless plug for my 2022 Voting Resources page. https://democraticunderground.com/100216380145 |