The religious right is fighting a rear-guard action and attempting to accomplish through the courts and legislatures what they have failed to achieve from their pulpits. Year by year they cede ground they will never recover, but cling to the delusion they can impose their religion on this country. No one with an understanding of the horrors that have been perpetrated by Christians in the name of Christianity would promote Christian moral values.
We have billionaires running the RNC who also pour MILLIONS into religious, right-wing conspirators actively seeking to undermine this democracy. The RNC Puppets installed by NeoNazi Fascists (“Libertarians” and “Dominionists”) are organized and funded at every level of government. While individuals may think religious influence is waning, they have not taken into account the EXPONENTIAL influence of Fascists through “Citizens United.”
The fact is that the numbers of (what I presume are) actively religious people in the US has been dropping consistently for well over a decade. The PROBLEM is that those who remain are more active, more outspoken, and more radical. THOSE are the people I suspect who are the supporters of Christian Nationalism (and by association, Donald Trump).
And THEY are the people that we need to maintain an unrelenting focus on.
Declining influence? Are these people oblivious to the Dobbs ruling? Moreover, in about 40% of our states, legislators who are ranchers, farmers and realtors, have presumed that their judgment is superior to that of the AMA and American Academy of Pediatrics. In turn, they have banned the care of gender incongruent adolescents, which conforms to the clinical practice standards of every mainstream medical association. That is a direct pander to Christian yahoos. Oh, and come to my state (Florida) and behold the banned books and the banned academic discourse. All in Jesus's name.
Speaking of RW nonsense, I noticed I got my regular batch of far right advertising push on Facebook this week. I have noticed that every few months there are a bunch of ads that really don’t fit my feed, I see PragerU, Ben Shapiro, and others that are obvious and I hide them and report them and after a week or so of this, they go away for a while. But they always come back, maybe not the same Facebook page as before, but the same right wing tomfoolery.
Well, I got a survey yesterday from some college, (Hillsdale College) I saw a few ads from the college to attend and ignored them until I got the survey. The survey was on this very subject, is the government interfering in your religious freedom. I decided I would see what I could do to curb the problems I see with our government and religious freedom, and clicked on the survey.
Oh lord.
Every question I saw was right wing propaganda, nowhere could you say that you didn’t really believe the government was persecuting you, nor could you say the government is pushing too much Christianity. It was literally a push poll designed to fearmonger the Republican agenda of leftists coming to take your Bible.
I think this type of concerted effort from Facebook and these grifty organizations is what is driving the results of the Pew poll. The fact that I regularly have to clear out the misinformation campaigns, and well known propaganda outlets that clearly have nothing to do with my preferred media on Facebook means that Facebook is pushing these things rather than just allowing the algorithm to find the trends. You know that folks that consume PragerU and Ben Shapiro are not cleaning out planned parenthood ads, actually I know they do not because the folks I personally know follow the propaganda indicate as much.
But then the non-lunatic media do not do much to inform the public of this threat. They give platforms to folks like MTG, Lauren Boebert and even Donald Trump before they got their positions, when they were non-influential people which lead to them becoming the influential people they are now. Trump never would have gotten elected if the media reacted the way they should have, as a fucking footnote. He’d run before, and they didn’t hang on his every word, why did they do it in 2016?
Okay, I’m ranting and I better stop. I should get back to work.
Too many Americans are either oblivious or too dumb to figure out what is going on out there, apparently. It may have always been the case, which would be why Ben Franklin, when asked by a woman, "What kind of government do we have?" replied, "A republic, madam, if we can keep it."
In fairness, if you're not paying close attention, many times Christianity's media lies make a certain amount of sense. They claim to be more moral, they claim to have direction from a higher power, they claim they know more about what matters to people and how to reflect the love of the divine better - it can sound like a pretty sweet deal, really. If you're not in one of the hated groups, then you might not understand just how deceptive Christian claims can be and how detrimental their political positions are.
If you don't know the truth, the history, the ongoing abuses and financial shenanigans, then it's easy to believe the pretty lies. Christianity often sells the sort of deceptions that people want to believe, that they've been forgiven of their errors, that they'll wind up in a better place, etc. That's a major part of why it's so easy to get into and so hard to get out for most people; not only does Christianity take over the social aspects of a person's life, it also takes over a lot of the emotional well being systems.
So far as I can tell, the only way to help folks with their religion problem is to be as honest as possible with them; what that says about religion should tell anyone all they really need to know.
The religious right is fighting a rear-guard action and attempting to accomplish through the courts and legislatures what they have failed to achieve from their pulpits. Year by year they cede ground they will never recover, but cling to the delusion they can impose their religion on this country. No one with an understanding of the horrors that have been perpetrated by Christians in the name of Christianity would promote Christian moral values.
We have billionaires running the RNC who also pour MILLIONS into religious, right-wing conspirators actively seeking to undermine this democracy. The RNC Puppets installed by NeoNazi Fascists (“Libertarians” and “Dominionists”) are organized and funded at every level of government. While individuals may think religious influence is waning, they have not taken into account the EXPONENTIAL influence of Fascists through “Citizens United.”
As American religiosity declines, the extremism will increase. The Handmaid’s Tale wasn’t supposed to be a glimpse into America’s future.
The fact is that the numbers of (what I presume are) actively religious people in the US has been dropping consistently for well over a decade. The PROBLEM is that those who remain are more active, more outspoken, and more radical. THOSE are the people I suspect who are the supporters of Christian Nationalism (and by association, Donald Trump).
And THEY are the people that we need to maintain an unrelenting focus on.
Declining influence? Are these people oblivious to the Dobbs ruling? Moreover, in about 40% of our states, legislators who are ranchers, farmers and realtors, have presumed that their judgment is superior to that of the AMA and American Academy of Pediatrics. In turn, they have banned the care of gender incongruent adolescents, which conforms to the clinical practice standards of every mainstream medical association. That is a direct pander to Christian yahoos. Oh, and come to my state (Florida) and behold the banned books and the banned academic discourse. All in Jesus's name.
Religion would be doing better in America if it wasn't so full of bigots, grifters, and nut jobs.
Speaking of RW nonsense, I noticed I got my regular batch of far right advertising push on Facebook this week. I have noticed that every few months there are a bunch of ads that really don’t fit my feed, I see PragerU, Ben Shapiro, and others that are obvious and I hide them and report them and after a week or so of this, they go away for a while. But they always come back, maybe not the same Facebook page as before, but the same right wing tomfoolery.
Well, I got a survey yesterday from some college, (Hillsdale College) I saw a few ads from the college to attend and ignored them until I got the survey. The survey was on this very subject, is the government interfering in your religious freedom. I decided I would see what I could do to curb the problems I see with our government and religious freedom, and clicked on the survey.
Oh lord.
Every question I saw was right wing propaganda, nowhere could you say that you didn’t really believe the government was persecuting you, nor could you say the government is pushing too much Christianity. It was literally a push poll designed to fearmonger the Republican agenda of leftists coming to take your Bible.
I think this type of concerted effort from Facebook and these grifty organizations is what is driving the results of the Pew poll. The fact that I regularly have to clear out the misinformation campaigns, and well known propaganda outlets that clearly have nothing to do with my preferred media on Facebook means that Facebook is pushing these things rather than just allowing the algorithm to find the trends. You know that folks that consume PragerU and Ben Shapiro are not cleaning out planned parenthood ads, actually I know they do not because the folks I personally know follow the propaganda indicate as much.
But then the non-lunatic media do not do much to inform the public of this threat. They give platforms to folks like MTG, Lauren Boebert and even Donald Trump before they got their positions, when they were non-influential people which lead to them becoming the influential people they are now. Trump never would have gotten elected if the media reacted the way they should have, as a fucking footnote. He’d run before, and they didn’t hang on his every word, why did they do it in 2016?
Okay, I’m ranting and I better stop. I should get back to work.
Too many Americans are either oblivious or too dumb to figure out what is going on out there, apparently. It may have always been the case, which would be why Ben Franklin, when asked by a woman, "What kind of government do we have?" replied, "A republic, madam, if we can keep it."
In fairness, if you're not paying close attention, many times Christianity's media lies make a certain amount of sense. They claim to be more moral, they claim to have direction from a higher power, they claim they know more about what matters to people and how to reflect the love of the divine better - it can sound like a pretty sweet deal, really. If you're not in one of the hated groups, then you might not understand just how deceptive Christian claims can be and how detrimental their political positions are.
If you don't know the truth, the history, the ongoing abuses and financial shenanigans, then it's easy to believe the pretty lies. Christianity often sells the sort of deceptions that people want to believe, that they've been forgiven of their errors, that they'll wind up in a better place, etc. That's a major part of why it's so easy to get into and so hard to get out for most people; not only does Christianity take over the social aspects of a person's life, it also takes over a lot of the emotional well being systems.
So far as I can tell, the only way to help folks with their religion problem is to be as honest as possible with them; what that says about religion should tell anyone all they really need to know.
People have so few examples to follow! One just doesn’t know who to trust anymore!
More OT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/15/missouri-law-divorce-pregnancy-violence-abortion
just threw some big fat rib eyes on the bbq. First grilling day of the year.
OT : 🤣🤣🤣
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-orleans-police-department-decay-rats-evidence-room-marijuana/
I am sure that hurts a lot of the people at the fox news network.
https://nationalzero.com/2024/03/17/fox-news-tacks-disclaimer-onto-trump-stolen-election-rant/
sure Jan
https://nationalzero.com/2024/03/16/overt-heterosexual-wants-rally-audience-to-know-hes-heterosexual/
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