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    there’s a lot going on in this article, but this part in particular is… uhh … a really special form of religious virtue…

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      I wish had no scruples because then I could sell people angels for $1,000

      I love how the most devout Christians are always always complete shitheads

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      Easy to forget that Bush and Reagan also had these Faith Based Initiative and religious themed cabinet positions. And they were also primarily about funneling state money to religious demagogues. And then Clinton/Obama kept them around because they didn’t want to offend the religious extremists.

      The large network of Crisis Intervention Centers that effectively exist to abuse young people with poor grades, substance abuse issues, and non-conforming gender/sexual preferences were all originally bankrolled by Reagan/Bush Era pilot programs and church kickbacks.

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    Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday establishing a “religious liberty commission” at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and present strategies to eliminate “threats to domestic religious liberty.” During his comments on the order, Trump said that he doesn’t know if there’s a separation of church and state and that we should “forget about that for one time.”

    Words alone simply fail to adequately describe my disgust and rage at this travesty.

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      “Religious liberty commission”

      For some reason as a Jewish person I get the strong feeling that this commission wont help me freely practice my religion.

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          Also, even though the deluded right wing like to claim that “secularism is a religion”, and same for liberalism or any other ism they are skeered of, they won’t be letting anyone practice those, either.

          Meaning: free thought will be a thoughtcrime.

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    All of this is spelled out in project 2025. If you want to know what’s coming next, just look at their website.

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      I’ve been warning people about the setup to martial law. That’s the final step of project 2025 that officially and completely destroys democracy. There will be no going back and no voting in the future. I keep being called an alarmist, but I was called an alarmist in late 2015 when he announced his run. It’s also perfectly spelled out and they’ve been doing every project 2025 has step by step.

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    I am a religious person even and this is insane. Do these people not read the Good Book? Trump is clearly the antichrist. And still all these chodes have… simp-pathy for the devil (because they simp so hard. I tried really hard to make that joke work this is the best I can do.)

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    A common theme of MAGA is inventing problems that they can solve.

    The idea that Christianity in the US is under threat and needs additional protections, is some epic persecution complex.

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      A common theme of MAGA is inventing problems that they can solve

      That they can pretend to solve.

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      Under threat? Because it’s declining in popularity? Sounds like the will of the people if you ask me.

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        That and the least amount of their privilege being questioned/ignored/dethroned is what they hate the very most.

        They don’t WANT people to have a right to choose to ignore their little book club. They don’t believe in this country, which is secular. They want xtian Shariah law to be the law of the land, which violates the very principles of this country.

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    I cannot respect any “Christian” that voted for Trump. Least Christ like person on the planet, quite possibly.

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    Sooner forget about the separation of his head from his shoulders but that ain’t happening either

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      The separation of church and state protects the church from the state at least as much as the state from the church. Christians should fear a “Christian” state.

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              No, we’re describing a religion and what its followers behave like. Atheism isn’t a religion or a group. It’s a choice to refrain from belief in a god. Christianity has churches, pastors, and now presidents who lead their followers into morally reprehensible behavior. One is rotten fruit, the other is rejecting rotten fruit. It’s not the same.

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                  A good person doesn’t support their religion when their religion is creating fascism in their country.

                  A good person stands up and says to trump: Despite my beliefs, I denounce what you are saying and cast you out of my religion you heathen.

                  But this is not what we are seeing, is it? You are against trump, I assume, yet you still defend religion before you fight fascism. Maybe ask yourself why that is.

                  Good luck defending what trump does in the name of religion.

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                  I said nothing about you as a person. My criticism is of your religion. If you’re taking it personally, that’s on your own conscience, and perhaps something you should reflect on.

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              The main difference between Christianity and atheism is that atheism is no organised movement. We don’t have a pope (no matter what Christians say about us, I don’t follow any of the so called “leaders” of the atheist movement like richard dawkins and his positions on the trans right movement for instance) and we don’t have a centralised structure, we simply don’t believe in ANY god.

              On the other hand there is Christianity and all organised religions which, as the name suggests, are ORGANISED around a central set of dogmas which are intended to be accepted as gospel by all their members. If you’re part of one of such religions you implicitly accept all their teachings as true and you support their message and actions. If you don’t want to be lump in with all other cultists following these directions please remove yourself from this specific group or shut the hell up.

              Thank you for coming to my ted talk, I’ll be here as long as needed

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      Only if you care about the constitution, freedom, and/or democracy. It’s very clear MAGA does not care about any of that so here we are.