...if your religion is about controlling others for their own good. (Reply #76)

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Fri Jun 24, 2022, 03:41 PM

76. ...if your religion is about controlling others for their own good.

I don’t need anyone’s religion. Especially those who think it’s their right to make me adhere to their selective definition of morality. Fuck those people.

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115 replies	Author	Time	Post
Christianity is not the enemy. [View all]	BWdem4life	Jun 24	OP
OK	lonely bird	Jun 24	#1
Why?	BWdem4life	Jun 24	#2
Why you ask?	lonely bird	Jun 24	#39
simple	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#5
Don't for get - drink his blood.	BlueIdaho	Jun 24	#78
Good point - the ritual cannibalism is key	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#88
thank you	barbtries	Jun 24	#20
The belief that Jesus was uniquely anointed by God	muriel_volestrangler	Jun 24	#30
No, that is not accurate	lonely bird	Jun 24	#56
Okay, quick question	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#92
Well, no; you're specifying particular denominational beliefs	muriel_volestrangler	Jun 24	#102
I suspect there are substantial numbers of fundamentalists in every flavor of Christianity.	Thomas Hurt	Jun 24	#3
The majority of Christian voters cast their ballots for Trump in 2016.	Mariana	Jun 24	#4
Do you actually have a statistic on that?	LakeArenal	Jun 24	#9
None of the Christians I know voted for Trump.	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 24	#26
Remarkably the set of "Christians I know" turns out not to be a representative sample	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#32
A Lesson Best Learned Early, Sir	The Magistrate	Jun 24	#45
That's why Trumpers think there was election fraud	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#51
Indeed, Sir	The Magistrate	Jun 24	#53
Sure.	Mariana	Jun 24	#28
The comment said most Christians not most white Christians.	LakeArenal	Jun 24	#68
58% of all Protestants, 52% of all Catholics, and 61% of all Mormons.	Mariana	Jun 24	#75
It's amazing these statistics can be delineated from secret ballots.	LakeArenal	Jun 24	#83
Yes, they can	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#89
The majority of white people cast their ballots for Trump in 2016 too	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#10
Yes.	Mariana	Jun 24	#24
The majority of white Christian voters cast their ballots with GZP	uponit7771	Jun 24	#18
The majority of Christians.	Mariana	Jun 24	#29
Well....	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#54
The Nazis had Socialist in their name...	The Revolution	Jun 24	#94
Okay, so "groups which are not Christian" include:	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#98
It is confusing	The Revolution	Jun 24	#103
Here's the thing...	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#106
You'd have to ask those Christians who don't believe the Mormons are Christian	Mariana	Jun 24	#100
Yup	Effete Snob	Jun 24	#104
Religion has no place in a modern, civilized society	Lanius	Jun 24	#6
+1	Meadowoak	Jun 24	#14
+1,000,000,000,000	MANative	Jun 24	#43
Does that apply to Islam? Judaism? Buddhism?	Seeking Serenity	Jun 24	#65
He use the word religion. Which part of the word do you not understand?	ZonkerHarris	Jun 24	#77
Just making sure (n/t)	Seeking Serenity	Jun 24	#81
...if your religion is about controlling others for their own good.	Duncan Grant	Jun 24	#76
Bravo !! K&R	Duppers	Jun 24	#79
I think it absolutely has a place, and that place is "not connected to the state apparatus"	anarch	Jun 24	#108
Liars are liars whether in God's name or not.	LakeArenal	Jun 24	#7
Catholicism is not Fundamentalist Christianity.	maxsolomon	Jun 24	#8
Oh, was there an order in there?	BWdem4life	Jun 24	#21
Post removed	Post removed	Jun 24	#36
Some say attack, others say analysis and evaluation.	Duncan Grant	Jun 24	#82
Happy to rec.	BlackSkimmer	Jun 24	#11
We don't live in a country facing existential challenges from fundamentalist Islam . . .	hatrack	Jun 24	#15
I can't answer how I'd like precisely because Islam is protected from this bigotry here. so oh well.	BlackSkimmer	Jun 24	#42
Thank you for speaking out.	phylny	Jun 24	#57
I hear you.	BlackSkimmer	Jun 24	#107
Thank you nt	XanaDUer2	Jun 24	#66
Did I say "Christianity"? No, I said "fundamentalist Christiantiy".	hatrack	Jun 24	#67
President Obama, President Biden, President Carter...all good Christians...	Mariana	Jun 24	#113
All religions suck when they are forced upon the masses.	Gore1FL	Jun 24	#23
Then you had better discern yourselves from the fundies REAL QUICK.	roamer65	Jun 24	#12
The Roman Catholic Church is not a fundamentalist church, yet	comradebillyboy	Jun 24	#13
Catholics aren't the only Christian church. They have	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 24	#41
The churches you name are all rapidly declining	comradebillyboy	Jun 24	#48
Actually, the RC Church is remarkably liberal on a lot of issues, like the DP for one	Seeking Serenity	Jun 24	#80
Most of my friends are good Catholics and they are	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 24	#105
Religion in general is the enemy when it is enforced. nt	Gore1FL	Jun 24	#16
The key word is enforced.	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 24	#31
They would seem to have more rights if it's their religion be crammed down our throats. nt	Gore1FL	Jun 24	#34
I call myself a Christian, but I'm probably not one.	LuckyCharms	Jun 24	#17
You're a Christian but haven't read the Bible? Typical Christian.	Lanius	Jun 24	#25
Conservative Christianity is the enemy!	atreides1	Jun 24	#19
Yes, christianity IS my enemy as long as it thinks it should control my uterus.	Novara	Jun 24	#22
Yes, I totally agree. n/a	Grey	Jun 24	#46
+1	Duncan Grant	Jun 24	#85
If they don't actively oppose Christo-fascism, they are the enemy	JCMach1	Jun 24	#27
I am a white christian who is sick of white christians.	Irish_Dem	Jun 24	#33
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF!!! Christianity is a patriarchal religion, PERIOD!!!!!	Coventina	Jun 24	#35
I've never treated a mental disease as the enemy.	48656c6c6f20	Jun 24	#37
Here's The Problem With That, Sir	The Magistrate	Jun 24	#38
+infinity	Duncan Grant	Jun 24	#69
Just curiously,	BWdem4life	Jun 24	#87
You Have Just Illustrated One Reason	The Magistrate	Jun 24	#95
Ok then.	BWdem4life	Jun 24	#99
RW fanatics and terrorists are no more Christian	relayerbob	Jun 24	#40
If they aren't Christian, what are they, exactly?	Mariana	Jun 24	#114
How many people died in the name of christian values , including this ?	RANDYWILDMAN	Jun 24	#44
2000 of history indicate it is an enemy nt	msongs	Jun 24	#47
I don't see any religious rights being taken away but women's rights were just broad-brushed away.	chowder66	Jun 24	#49
LMAO - please, won't someone think of the persecuted Christians?	Politicub	Jun 24	#50
LOL	HAB911	Jun 24	#60
Yes it is.	gay texan	Jun 24	#52
I guess I didn't realize there is so much hate.	leftyladyfrommo	Jun 24	#58
This "group" has a knack for making my life miserable	gay texan	Jun 24	#86
The Fundamentalists in Each Religion are The Problem...	electric_blue68	Jun 24	#55
Tax the churches! nt	Wounded Bear	Jun 24	#59
Christianity is my enemy	HAB911	Jun 24	#61
Can't speak for anyone else	zappaman	Jun 24	#62
Semantics.	2 Meow Momma	Jun 24	#63
Fuck that. I'm sick of oppressive imaginary men setting our freedoms and rules.	NightWatcher	Jun 24	#64
Mature Christian: "Oh, this isn't about me. It's about fanatics."	Duncan Grant	Jun 24	#70
This message was self-deleted by its author	BusterMove	Jun 24	#71
nah.. it's a weapon now	nini	Jun 24	#72
I'm gonna disagree with this point	Seeking Serenity	Jun 24	#73
Some forms of it sure the fuck are.	WhiskeyGrinder	Jun 24	#74
There is no uniform "Christianity."	MineralMan	Jun 24	#84
What you are forgetting is that the Catholic Bishops	arthritisR_US	Jun 24	#90
+1,000,000	highplainsdem	Jun 24	#91
Opus Dei...	AntiFascist	Jun 24	#93
This message was self-deleted by its author	CloudWatcher	Jun 24	#96
Conflating	Behind the Aegis	Jun 24	#97
Sorry, but be the last unsupported group by DU & others to be discriminated against & then we'll	Hestia	Jun 24	#101
In the context of our current culture...	msfiddlestix	Jun 24	#109
I'm glad you're more concerned about "Christianity"'s public image rather than what "Christians" did	tenderfoot	Jun 24	#110
The reason that Christianity is bashed is because it is America's dominate religion.	walkingman	Jun 24	#111
The enemy is GOP propaganda.	Initech	Jun 24	#112
LOCKING	Spazito	Jun 24	#115

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