Funny thing. Guys like Owens want to claim that Democrats are banning the bible when we're not, yet they ALSO want to ban books and ideas and concepts that THEY can't deal with. Frankly the hypocrisy is so blatant, it's astonishing.
Of course, I suspect what Owens and his ilk really want to do is make the bible the ONLY reference in public schools, while making all the other books subject to censorship, if not banning. I just hope he gets blowback up the ying-yang for his bullshit.
I deal a lot with conservatives on more political sites and I don't think that Owens is a traditional conservative. He's a much more of a Christian Nationalist and Trumpist. Of course, considering that a lot of what passes for conservatism (with exceptions like The Bulwark) does not stand up to the MAGAs, it's easy to think otherwise.
"Frankly the hypocrisy is so blatant, it's astonishing."
Republicans have been using a not-so-secret weapon for several years:
Don't care about their own hypocrisy.
For hypocrisy to spur a person to improve their behavior, they must have a working conscience that makes them uncomfortable with the contradiction between their words and their behavior. That discomfort is the correct meaning of the term "cognitive dissonance." If a person just doesn't care about being a hypocrite, or looking like one, then they can just keep boldly going on with their self-serving, two-faced, double-dealing lack of integrity.
They don't even have to descend to a diagnosable level of Antisocial Personality Disorder, otherwise known as being a psychopath. They just have to numb their conscience enough to pretend that they're oblivious to it, to fake not caring, fake not feeling guilty or ashamed, and with practice, they eventually are free of that nagging cognitive dissonance. They are in effect, amateur psychopaths.
And yet, I have to keep responding to people on more religious sites who claim that you can't be a Christian and vote for a Democrat. It is so embarrassing and sad.
I was in high school in 1963. Our school library always had a copy of the Bible. I never saw anyone reading it, but it was there. Conservative Christians can never stop playing the poor, persecuted victims. In spite of their complaints, there is no group who would be more inclined to persecute others if given the chance.
We had to buy bibles for our high school. I'm pretty sure I threw mine away a couple years ago, although I kept the one I got for confirmation (maybe?) since it was pretty nice. I have no idea where it actually is though.
Funny. I'm a bibliophile, just the sight of rows of neatly shelved books is an AMSR for me. So it's not often that I lose a book. I've bought or been given multiple bibles over my years and I have lost every one. I think my subconscious finds them so utterly useless that it blocks out any memory of them.
On a side note, I've been with my partner for almost 10 years. 2014. In 1995, I was living with my then fiance in an apartment just off campus. Years later I was describing this apartment to current partner when she says "I've been there"! And then described the place perfectly, including the bookshelves lining a good bit of the walls throughout. It turned out that at the time, both ex-wife and life partner were in the same class when the ex hosted a study group. Didn't meet her then, I'd made myself scarce, but in a weird way she met me, because her lasting impression of that place was books, and books and books.
I found one use for a bible. When I was having MTailor measure me for pants, my phone is too long to get my feet at the angle and distance they need to calculate dimensions, so I ended up standing on my bible, so they could see my feet.
This is what a refusal to compromise leads to. They shot themselves in the groin and it'd be funny but we've got spending bills that need to be passed.
Yes, you are looking for the "insanity" answer. But this is also the basis of "practice." Which is not just sane, but recommended if you want to become good at anything.
I absolutely hated gym class in high school. My hand/eye coordination was about 3 feet off, I had no upper body strength to speak off, and was just generally a total spaz.
Yes, that is the point. The answer to "what do you call doing the same thing over and over and expecting results to change" is not "insanity," it is "practice." Which is very sane and in fact rational. Thus it is very rational, in many cases in life, to do the same thing over and over again while expecting the results to change.
“Tenets based on the belief that, with God in time, we can truly become a more perfect union.”
Oh so, god is mentioned as how we form a more perfect union?
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
I’m not seeing it. I see the people looking to form a more perfect union. I see the people establishing the constitution, which is focused on justice, tranquility, defense, general welfare, and liberty in order to accomplish the goal of a more perfect union. Nowhere do I see god mentioned. I see blessings, but it is in reference to liberty and nothing about god supports liberty, so I’m guessing the authors of the constitution weren’t really thinking of him.
Let’s see, are there any references to god in the constitution? You know, to use him to create this more perfect union. I do see where the authors distinctly chose to exclude religion specifically from the workings of the government.
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Oh, look at that, no religious test. No religion. Hmm, if there’s to be no religious test, how would god help create this more perfect union?
“Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
Oops, more rejection of religion.
Sorry pal, the tenets our country were built upon had no reliance on god, just the people of the country working together. Something your god loves to interfere with as referenced in your precious bible, that’s was never banned.
"the golden rule which says we should treat others the way we want to be treated."
Oh ? Does he respect women's rights to contraception and abortion ? Does he support LGBTQI+ rights to live a peaceful life ?
About the 1963 babble banning from chools, did anyone pay attention to the year ? Congressman owens found a lead for JFK's assassination. He was killed by a child who wanted his daily indoctrination back 😁
"the golden rule which says we should treat others the way we want to be treated."
Until it comes to respecting religious beliefs. Then it’s no holds barred, don’t worry if you would like to be left to your religion, the one in charge is obligated to force you to follow theirs. I mean, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Holocaust, are all examples of when Christianity didn’t follow the golden rule when it comes to doing unto others as you’d have done to you.
Indeed. The golden rule as applied to this particular issue would be: don't force a teacher to read from the bible to other people's kids, since if you were the teacher you wouldn't want to be forced to read the Koran to any kid, and you wouldn't want any teacher to read the Koran to your kid.
Oh, my poor Congressman Owens, do you really want to know what was one of the foundations of this country? It was a major economic and social institution of our country for the first four score and seven years. Over four million Americans were involved with it at its height, and even today there are numerous monuments dedicated to its strongest proponents. It wasn't the bible, but endorsements of it were found in throughout the book. You might be a bit disappointed.
"...the Ten Commandments, among these, thou shall not steal, thou shall not kill, thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall honor thy father and mother."
I noticed that he didn't list "thou shalt not bear false witness".
We're not exactly dealing with top-shelf divine competence, here- this 𝘪𝘴 the same god who made the core of his favorite planet and the blood oxygen cycle of his favorite creation out of or dependent on the 𝘰𝘯𝘦 substance he's allergic to.
It's why I say we are and all animals with a iron based blood created by Min. The christian god only creation is the horseshoe crab with their copper based blood 😁
Not only is the Bible not banned in Iowa schools, it's actually *exempted* - by name - from our state's school book banning law. The Torah and Qur'an are also named in the law.
280.6 Religious books.
Religious books such as the Bible, the Torah, and the Koran shall not be excluded from any
public school or institution in the state, nor shall any child be required to read such religious
books contrary to the wishes of the child’s parent or guardian.
I had a bit of fun on Quora this morning. It seems the religionists have decided to criticize the "morality" of atheists, since we have no Big Book of God and Morality to draw from. Israelis bombing a hospital. Palestinians raping and murdering hostages. Wanna talk about a way to happiness? They don't seem real happy over there, despite their Big Books. Meanwhile, atheists aren't committing atrocities in the name of nothing. It takes a god to fuel that sort of behavior.
Anyone want to inform the congressman that good Christians used to use the book he holds so dear as a justification to enslave people of his skin color? Those same Christians even started a war to hold onto an institution that people could use to buy/sell/own other people.
I remain gobsmacked that any POC either supports or subscribes to the book and religion of their oppressors.
The bible not available in schools? Oh my, that just leaves all the xtian houses of worship (in a country where Christianity is by far the dominant religion and there are more churches than schools or hospitals). Not available in schools? That just leaves all those Christian homes. Not available in schools? Guess Sunday school must've vanished across the country, eh?
*sigh* Christians never listen to themselves, no matter how stupid they sound.
When I was a kid, my mother worked as a maid in a motel that had hourly rates. Sometimes she would make me come to work with her if I didn't have school that day. One day we made up the same room 3 times. I saw a 4th couple heading for it and asked the guy to take his time since I was tired of putting clean sheets on that bed that day. 😇
I don't remember exactly how it happened. I had some friends that moved away after high school and they came back to visit. They stayed at a hotel and there was a group of us hanging out in their room. Somehow, the mattress got pushed over some and there was a small stack of magazines sticking out. We pulled them out and they were like self published, send in your own photos of British housewives type thing. It really wasn't all that pleasant.
The used to have Bibles in every hotel – donated by the Gideons, don't know if they still do – certainly not in NZ. They came to our school once and donated every pupil a Bible – a small new Testament with a bright red cover. By the end of the day there were little red dots all over the school grounds.
They did that when I was in school. In grade school we would take them, and some would even take them home. In high school, we would take them and then toss them into the next trash can we came across.
Why is it so fucking hard to just practice your religion and teach it to your own children in your home? Is it really that hard? I don't think it is. I know many Christians who do it. I suppose statistically, they could be the outliers and somehow they're all in one pocket of the country, but I doubt it.
So why must you narcissistically force your beliefs onto everybody? What's really so fucking hard about just reading your book, praying, practicing your other tenets, and just not being an asshole about it who wants to use the State's monopoly on violence to force it on other people who are perfectly happy with their own faith or no faith?
"Why is it so fucking hard to just practice your religion and teach it to your own children in your home?" Taking that as a sincere question, here's an honest answer: Because, OUTSIDE of your own home, they're being exposed to other ideas that cause them to question whether they're getting the straight scoop from their parents, and the parents dread this challenge to their know-it-all authority over their own kids. (Plus which, I suspect that a non-trivial number of them are more than a little insecure about what they DO believe and would like to avoid confronting their doubts at all costs, let alone having their own kids be the ones prompting the confrontation.)
They oppose the teaching of evolution in public schools. This is one chapter in a biology text. They and their children attend church services on Wed. and Sunday. Presumably they have family bible readings at home. I'd say they go to great lengths to inoculate themselves from subjects they find harmful and would do so to the rest of us if they ever get the theocracy they dream about.
Funny thing. Guys like Owens want to claim that Democrats are banning the bible when we're not, yet they ALSO want to ban books and ideas and concepts that THEY can't deal with. Frankly the hypocrisy is so blatant, it's astonishing.
Of course, I suspect what Owens and his ilk really want to do is make the bible the ONLY reference in public schools, while making all the other books subject to censorship, if not banning. I just hope he gets blowback up the ying-yang for his bullshit.
I think one of the defining characteristics of conservatism, is immunity to hypocrisy.
I deal a lot with conservatives on more political sites and I don't think that Owens is a traditional conservative. He's a much more of a Christian Nationalist and Trumpist. Of course, considering that a lot of what passes for conservatism (with exceptions like The Bulwark) does not stand up to the MAGAs, it's easy to think otherwise.
“ I just hope he gets blowback up the ying-yang for his bullshit.”
He might enjoy that, but it’s a sin.
These people make my head hurt.
"Frankly the hypocrisy is so blatant, it's astonishing."
Republicans have been using a not-so-secret weapon for several years:
Don't care about their own hypocrisy.
For hypocrisy to spur a person to improve their behavior, they must have a working conscience that makes them uncomfortable with the contradiction between their words and their behavior. That discomfort is the correct meaning of the term "cognitive dissonance." If a person just doesn't care about being a hypocrite, or looking like one, then they can just keep boldly going on with their self-serving, two-faced, double-dealing lack of integrity.
They don't even have to descend to a diagnosable level of Antisocial Personality Disorder, otherwise known as being a psychopath. They just have to numb their conscience enough to pretend that they're oblivious to it, to fake not caring, fake not feeling guilty or ashamed, and with practice, they eventually are free of that nagging cognitive dissonance. They are in effect, amateur psychopaths.
Does that make Trump a professional psychopath? 😝
"We instead find the greatest disdain for these laws wherever Democrats rule…"
Most democrats are christian and in the halls of government the percentage is even higher.
"[W]herever Democrats rule".
This is one thing that distinguishes the two parties. Republicans want to rule (and project that onto their opponents) and Democrats want to govern.
What we find disdain for are people like Owens who want to perforate the wall between State and Church!
And yet, I have to keep responding to people on more religious sites who claim that you can't be a Christian and vote for a Democrat. It is so embarrassing and sad.
I was in high school in 1963. Our school library always had a copy of the Bible. I never saw anyone reading it, but it was there. Conservative Christians can never stop playing the poor, persecuted victims. In spite of their complaints, there is no group who would be more inclined to persecute others if given the chance.
It's all projection.
We had to buy bibles for our high school. I'm pretty sure I threw mine away a couple years ago, although I kept the one I got for confirmation (maybe?) since it was pretty nice. I have no idea where it actually is though.
Funny. I'm a bibliophile, just the sight of rows of neatly shelved books is an AMSR for me. So it's not often that I lose a book. I've bought or been given multiple bibles over my years and I have lost every one. I think my subconscious finds them so utterly useless that it blocks out any memory of them.
On a side note, I've been with my partner for almost 10 years. 2014. In 1995, I was living with my then fiance in an apartment just off campus. Years later I was describing this apartment to current partner when she says "I've been there"! And then described the place perfectly, including the bookshelves lining a good bit of the walls throughout. It turned out that at the time, both ex-wife and life partner were in the same class when the ex hosted a study group. Didn't meet her then, I'd made myself scarce, but in a weird way she met me, because her lasting impression of that place was books, and books and books.
I found one use for a bible. When I was having MTailor measure me for pants, my phone is too long to get my feet at the angle and distance they need to calculate dimensions, so I ended up standing on my bible, so they could see my feet.
"When I was having MTailor measure me for pants"
MTailor Greene?
There aren't enough vaccines to let that woman near me.
The custom clothing app for men.
𝑂𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 “𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠.”
And he wants to keep the bible? Has he read the thing?
Of course, we all know that "graphic, explicit content" is their code for "acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people"
OT: What's it called when you do the same thing over and over again and expect different results?
(Jordon loses again.)
Make it official: a total of 25 defections! Jordan got 194 votes. One hopes he cops a clue and quits, but again ... this is Jim Jordan.
Probably means someone's going to die.
The GQP told Jordan to stop running for speaker. Aw, poor Jimmy. 😪
JORDAN: "I'm still running."
*eyeroll* They're just not that into you, Jimmy. Open your wallet and buy a clue.
Well, he got a different result this time- his fellow fascist fuckheads have dropped him completely now: https://apnews.com/article/speaker-jordan-republican-mchenry-2e32f930b4fb83a4fcae2171c9e1c055
𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 not the different result he was hoping for.
This is what a refusal to compromise leads to. They shot themselves in the groin and it'd be funny but we've got spending bills that need to be passed.
Sends a message, too ... both to Jordan AND to Trump!
Neither will get it.
I hate that adage. It's so misleading.
Yes, you are looking for the "insanity" answer. But this is also the basis of "practice." Which is not just sane, but recommended if you want to become good at anything.
With practice, your results should change (get better).
Obviously, you never saw me playing volleyball (don't mention basketball) or trying to survive Athletics season at school 😁
I absolutely hated gym class in high school. My hand/eye coordination was about 3 feet off, I had no upper body strength to speak off, and was just generally a total spaz.
I didn't hate all sports. I loved handball, baseball*, roller hockey
and ping pong.
*Mr G thank you forever for not believing in the concept of girls sports and boys sports.
Yes, that is the point. The answer to "what do you call doing the same thing over and over and expecting results to change" is not "insanity," it is "practice." Which is very sane and in fact rational. Thus it is very rational, in many cases in life, to do the same thing over and over again while expecting the results to change.
"what do you call doing the same thing over and over and expecting results to change"
That's not the question. It's when results don't change.
Trump hates losers...like John McCain.
“Tenets based on the belief that, with God in time, we can truly become a more perfect union.”
Oh so, god is mentioned as how we form a more perfect union?
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
I’m not seeing it. I see the people looking to form a more perfect union. I see the people establishing the constitution, which is focused on justice, tranquility, defense, general welfare, and liberty in order to accomplish the goal of a more perfect union. Nowhere do I see god mentioned. I see blessings, but it is in reference to liberty and nothing about god supports liberty, so I’m guessing the authors of the constitution weren’t really thinking of him.
Let’s see, are there any references to god in the constitution? You know, to use him to create this more perfect union. I do see where the authors distinctly chose to exclude religion specifically from the workings of the government.
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Oh, look at that, no religious test. No religion. Hmm, if there’s to be no religious test, how would god help create this more perfect union?
“Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
Oops, more rejection of religion.
Sorry pal, the tenets our country were built upon had no reliance on god, just the people of the country working together. Something your god loves to interfere with as referenced in your precious bible, that’s was never banned.
"the golden rule which says we should treat others the way we want to be treated."
Oh ? Does he respect women's rights to contraception and abortion ? Does he support LGBTQI+ rights to live a peaceful life ?
About the 1963 babble banning from chools, did anyone pay attention to the year ? Congressman owens found a lead for JFK's assassination. He was killed by a child who wanted his daily indoctrination back 😁
PS : for the people who would want to read about a more interesting Burgess. Enjoy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Shale
"the golden rule which says we should treat others the way we want to be treated."
Until it comes to respecting religious beliefs. Then it’s no holds barred, don’t worry if you would like to be left to your religion, the one in charge is obligated to force you to follow theirs. I mean, the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Holocaust, are all examples of when Christianity didn’t follow the golden rule when it comes to doing unto others as you’d have done to you.
They couldn't even follow it between catholics countries. Think all the wars between France and England during the Middle Age.
Indeed. The golden rule as applied to this particular issue would be: don't force a teacher to read from the bible to other people's kids, since if you were the teacher you wouldn't want to be forced to read the Koran to any kid, and you wouldn't want any teacher to read the Koran to your kid.
But, but, but...thuh babble's DIFFERNT
Oh, my poor Congressman Owens, do you really want to know what was one of the foundations of this country? It was a major economic and social institution of our country for the first four score and seven years. Over four million Americans were involved with it at its height, and even today there are numerous monuments dedicated to its strongest proponents. It wasn't the bible, but endorsements of it were found in throughout the book. You might be a bit disappointed.
"...the Ten Commandments, among these, thou shall not steal, thou shall not kill, thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall honor thy father and mother."
I noticed that he didn't list "thou shalt not bear false witness".
The commandments are supposedly their moral code but they give TFG a pass on most of them.
I noticed, but was not surprised.
It appears that God isn't sending its best.
Maybe it is. That's even worse.
We're not exactly dealing with top-shelf divine competence, here- this 𝘪𝘴 the same god who made the core of his favorite planet and the blood oxygen cycle of his favorite creation out of or dependent on the 𝘰𝘯𝘦 substance he's allergic to.
"dependent on the 𝘰𝘯𝘦 substance he's allergic to."
Reality?
It's why I say we are and all animals with a iron based blood created by Min. The christian god only creation is the horseshoe crab with their copper based blood 😁
Not only is the Bible not banned in Iowa schools, it's actually *exempted* - by name - from our state's school book banning law. The Torah and Qur'an are also named in the law.
280.6 Religious books.
Religious books such as the Bible, the Torah, and the Koran shall not be excluded from any public school or institution in the state, nor shall any child be required to read such religious books contrary to the wishes of the child’s parent or guardian.
I had a bit of fun on Quora this morning. It seems the religionists have decided to criticize the "morality" of atheists, since we have no Big Book of God and Morality to draw from. Israelis bombing a hospital. Palestinians raping and murdering hostages. Wanna talk about a way to happiness? They don't seem real happy over there, despite their Big Books. Meanwhile, atheists aren't committing atrocities in the name of nothing. It takes a god to fuel that sort of behavior.
Anyone want to inform the congressman that good Christians used to use the book he holds so dear as a justification to enslave people of his skin color? Those same Christians even started a war to hold onto an institution that people could use to buy/sell/own other people.
I remain gobsmacked that any POC either supports or subscribes to the book and religion of their oppressors.
I still can't figure out what Jesus has done for Black Americans lately (or ever).
Praise the Lloyd!
Find one? How do you keep people from shoving them at you?
The bible not available in schools? Oh my, that just leaves all the xtian houses of worship (in a country where Christianity is by far the dominant religion and there are more churches than schools or hospitals). Not available in schools? That just leaves all those Christian homes. Not available in schools? Guess Sunday school must've vanished across the country, eh?
*sigh* Christians never listen to themselves, no matter how stupid they sound.
Doesn't some hotels/motels keep bibles in night stands too ? What a persecution indeed.
Not only that, but unlike the towels, they don't charge you if you take it with you.
The bibles are donated by an outside group; the towels are included in the room rate.
I've found the Book of Mormon in a couple hotel night stands, also.
I found some really sketchy porn under a hotel mattress.
I would be afraid to check under the mattress in a hotel. I can sleep better if I just don't know.
I used to work in a hotel. The things I saw that weren't even hidden would make you run screaming into the night.
When I was a kid, my mother worked as a maid in a motel that had hourly rates. Sometimes she would make me come to work with her if I didn't have school that day. One day we made up the same room 3 times. I saw a 4th couple heading for it and asked the guy to take his time since I was tired of putting clean sheets on that bed that day. 😇
Other than the porn, the oddest thing I've found was the My Little Pony underwear.
And no, it wasn't my size.
I don't remember exactly how it happened. I had some friends that moved away after high school and they came back to visit. They stayed at a hotel and there was a group of us hanging out in their room. Somehow, the mattress got pushed over some and there was a small stack of magazines sticking out. We pulled them out and they were like self published, send in your own photos of British housewives type thing. It really wasn't all that pleasant.
You still have them, don't you? 😉
The used to have Bibles in every hotel – donated by the Gideons, don't know if they still do – certainly not in NZ. They came to our school once and donated every pupil a Bible – a small new Testament with a bright red cover. By the end of the day there were little red dots all over the school grounds.
In all the hotels I went, when there were nightstands, they only were full of air and sometimes dust.
They did that when I was in school. In grade school we would take them, and some would even take them home. In high school, we would take them and then toss them into the next trash can we came across.
The grade school ones were red, and the high school were green.
I still have my red one from 5th grade, when a team of Gideons came to our school.
Red in both cases.
I think my mother still had the ones I was given because I actually brought them home. (I was young and actually believed this shit)
Substack hates you Zorg. Yet another post from you that doesn't show up in my Notifications.
Why is it so fucking hard to just practice your religion and teach it to your own children in your home? Is it really that hard? I don't think it is. I know many Christians who do it. I suppose statistically, they could be the outliers and somehow they're all in one pocket of the country, but I doubt it.
So why must you narcissistically force your beliefs onto everybody? What's really so fucking hard about just reading your book, praying, practicing your other tenets, and just not being an asshole about it who wants to use the State's monopoly on violence to force it on other people who are perfectly happy with their own faith or no faith?
"Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor."
-Ambrose Bierce.
"Why is it so fucking hard to just practice your religion and teach it to your own children in your home?" Taking that as a sincere question, here's an honest answer: Because, OUTSIDE of your own home, they're being exposed to other ideas that cause them to question whether they're getting the straight scoop from their parents, and the parents dread this challenge to their know-it-all authority over their own kids. (Plus which, I suspect that a non-trivial number of them are more than a little insecure about what they DO believe and would like to avoid confronting their doubts at all costs, let alone having their own kids be the ones prompting the confrontation.)
They oppose the teaching of evolution in public schools. This is one chapter in a biology text. They and their children attend church services on Wed. and Sunday. Presumably they have family bible readings at home. I'd say they go to great lengths to inoculate themselves from subjects they find harmful and would do so to the rest of us if they ever get the theocracy they dream about.
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