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lees1975

(3,845 posts)
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 01:26 PM Sep 2022

Hints from religious conservatives about how they would change American Democracy...

...if they get the chance.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-strange-ways-of-doing-business-in.html

I include this information as a warning. If we continue to elect right wing leadership connected to the religious right, this is what we will get. There is an appeal here to the appearance of "democratic values." But the fact of the matter is that within this particular religious denomination, control by an oligarchy is the status quo, and it always has been that way. It's a throwback to the antebellum south, to a culture and time when prestige and prominence, in the form of wealth and influence, mattered, and nothing else did. It was a society based on class, with the lower classes there to serve the wealthy and preserve the status quo, as well as someone else's wealth. That's the Southern Baptist Convention in a nutshell.

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Hints from religious conservatives about how they would change American Democracy... (Original Post) lees1975 Sep 2022 OP
And no abortions, no same sex marriage/relationships, no contraception... brush Sep 2022 #1
The big one is that all the bible "sins" will become crimes punishable by the state. n/t spike jones Sep 2022 #3
Except for the sin of HYPOCRISY..they will enshrine that sin as a gift to the christian nation. Tikki Sep 2022 #4
Thanks... Interesting!!! Karadeniz Sep 2022 #2

brush

(53,764 posts)
1. And no abortions, no same sex marriage/relationships, no contraception...
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 01:32 PM
Sep 2022

no interracial marriage/relationships...no nothing.

Tikki

(14,557 posts)
4. Except for the sin of HYPOCRISY..they will enshrine that sin as a gift to the christian nation.
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 10:46 PM
Sep 2022

Tikki
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