[the book describes wars fought by Christians, such as the Crusades, as intended to defend and protect other Christians.]
Ah, yes... which is why the Crusaders famously murdered a lot of Christians, sacked Constantinople, and committed genocide in Jerusalem.
Also where the famous phrase was spoken to kill them all because God would know his own.
Hell, we don't even have to go back to the middle ages, let's ask people in Northern Ireland how loving and compassionate Christianity was 20 years ago when shit was blowing up and people were murdered in the name of Christ for having the wrong faith and politics.
Yes, the 4th Crusade (sacking of Constantinople) is my favorite Crusade. Of course there’s always the 30 yrs war, I especially enjoy Catholic France’s actions supporting the Protestants. And of course the beginnings, the defenestration of Catholics in Prague by the Protestants.
I’m sure Hegseth and company will cover these glorious Christian moments in history.
Manifest Destiny, American chattel slavery, Jim Crow laws. Also, an estimated 15% to 30% of enslaved Africans brought to North America were Muslims, and they faced systematic, institutional pressure from white slaveholders to abandon their faith and convert to Christianity.
The entire history of Europe since the Reformation too. The "age of exploration"... colonialism... the missions... the Magdalena laundries... Native Americans... the KKK... lynchings... the civil rights movement response by white Christians...
Right but the Armenian Holocaust occurred in a Muslim nation. True believers are scared of those who are not like them and they relieve their fears by persecuting and killing others.
I think their reply would be September 11, 2001. True believers of any faith be it religious or secular are more than willing to commit acts of violence and murder to get their way.
The easiest counter to that is to point out that the KKK and other white supremacist groups are explicitly Christian. Not to mention incidents like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the Tulsa Race Massacre.
The very Catholic Hitler, and his troops (with Gott Mitt Uns "God is with us" on their belt buckles) killing Jewish persons and Romany and LGBTQ, and anyone who disagreed with them.
And, they in turn would bring up counterexamples of violence committed by members of other religions. As long as someone thinks that their beliefs be they secular or religious can justify violence, we're going to have this problem. It's a shame that Trump went with someone like Hegseth.
Trump went with Whiskey Pete because he would uphold Trump's desire to turn the military into white conservative men with itchy trigger fingers loyal to Trump and not loyal to the Constitution. Hell, they want to rename an aircraft carrier after Trump because it was originally going to be named after s black man.
I would say that the problem are true believers whether they be secular or religious. The followers of Marx could be just as bloodthirsty as the Inquisition when it came to dealing with people who did not share their views.
Point being: radical, fundamentalist religions generally don't play well with others. For them, it's my way or the highway, and that goes for all three Abrahamic religions. The problem with Hegseth is that he doesn't want to acknowledge the entire playing field, but skew the attention AWAY from Christianity.
Like the slave trade? Nowhere in the bible is slavery condemned. Nowhere in the bible does it even hint that women are people, too. Out of the last 20 centuries of Christianity, only for the last 1.5 has Christianity slowly moved toward the realization that women are leople and that slavery is bad. And how many Christians just like Whiskey Pete want to turn back the clock?
Alright folks, here’s the real deal. If we do not vote in November and wipe the board with the Republicans, there will not be an USA anymore. Call me cynical or hyperbolic, but this needs to be ended, now. Anymore leeway for these monsters and they will win. The primaries got plenty of progressives and the centrists can be managed, but we need to end every single GOP candidate’s careers for good. And I feel like we are moving past the point of no violent return.
Living in a reddish state, it seems to me like most folks don't understand how bad it's getting quite yet. That's not to say you're wrong, just that the public seems to be turning a blind eye right now, and yeah, that's going to hurt in the long run. I'm worried about what cleaning up the mess might look like in 2028/2029; and if there will even be another presidential election considering just how much SCOTUS is letting DJT get away with.
I'm having a hard time sleeping some nights, hope the rest of you are doing better.
I will do what I can, but in my neck of the woods, it won't make much of a difference. We did get rid of most of the absolute worst of the worst in the primaries, but those that won weren't much better.
Casting Islam as inherently more violent than Christiany? Islam didn't create/run the Inquisitions. The Witch Hunts were also a Christian enterprise, as were the Conquistadors, the convert-or-die missionaries and the slaughter of indiginous peoples of this hemisphere. Christians even went so far as to practice cannibalism on the Muslims during the Crusades.
True but Islam expanded for several hundred years through violence by conquering other nations. Later, they exhibited a degree of tolerance which was anathema to Christendom which embraced violence against non-Christians as in the Spanish Reconquista. I think that most people whatever their beliefs want to live in peace but the true believers won't be satisfied with that.
Constantine imposed his preferred version of Christianity as the state religion. Jews were ALWAYS persecuted in Christian countries. Sure, there were peaceful monks who sailed to remote islands and evangelized - but empires always try to expand, and that's no different in Christian-ruled empires than in early Muslim-ruled empires. The specific type of religion is used as a tool, a unifying political / social factor in conquest. Note that the founding myth (Mayflower, etc) of the USA is that settlers were Christian and were escaping persecution by other Christians in their home countries. 99% of "religious" motivation is indistinguishable from efforts to grab territory and assets.
True but early Christianity for a few centuries spread through individual conversions as compared to Islam which used military force to spread itself across the world. But, we Christians proved that we could also use military force once we had access to it.
The evangelicals never stop pushing their religion as the solution to all the world problems, while always turning a blind eye to the countless horrors perpetrated by Christians in the name of Christianity. Pickled Pete Hegseth is the most grotesquely incompetent and unfit person to ever lead our military.
Well, what do you expect from people who are certain that the Bible is ‘inerrant’? This text book starts with that premise and then adds that white christians are always right. It is just another instance of Christian Nationalism screaming hooray for our tribe!
And it was written, rewritten, and heavily edited over about an 800 year period. If we had the autograph (originally released version) of each book, it would be a completely different critter.
I almost feel bad for the people I know who seem to think that because some real historic places and people are mentioned in the Bible, that is ‘proves’ it is an historic account of events.
It also has boundless nonsense. The Gospels are so discordant that if you believe one, the others fall by the wayside if you don’t have mindless cognitive dissonance.
"Christianity" Keep all religion out of the United States military. Start with eliminating the U.S. military spending millions to tax dollars on religions. Their nothing but trouble, causing division and discrimination.
At this time few of the top religions are actually financially supported by the U.S. military. In a country where freedom of all religions is emphasized.
I usually don’t think too much when older celebrities die, just “well, they had a good run”. Dolly Parton though. Aside from her musical talents she was a stellar human being who had a positive impact on millions with her philanthropy and her down to earth, matter of fact support for humans targeted for bigotry. The world was made better by her presence.
If ever there was a good and decent and caring person, Dolly Parton was that in spades. I think back to her appearance on The Orville, and what a delight she was. I hope she had the time of her life, doing that episode.
Further Thought: I can't help but suspect that, once parents get wind of this change in curriculum, at least some of them will be screaming bloody murder about it and insist that their school system return to a course structure better based in FACTS, rather than Christian propaganda.
Hegseth thinks he can run roughshod over the educational system. He needs a little educating of his own.
"Soldier, your wife is getting pretty lippy about the school situation, and the higher-ups aren't happy. You'd better get her under control before we ship her and the kids back to the States and your career is over. Understood?"
The hook is that these parents are military people, so they have to be extremely careful about criticizing the Department of Defense leadership. In this environment, they will find themselves in trouble with their own leadership.
A lot of that depends on how reasonable their mid-line officer corps are and how receptive they are to the needs of the enlisted, as well as their own ranks. I simply do not see this issue getting swept under the rug.
Maybe a few would scream bloody murder, but most won't even blink. In my experience, the vast majority of Americans don't give a damn about history (or democracy, for that matter). Most people only care about their spending power.
Consider:
The "president" can mount a multi-pronged assault against voting rights, and most Americans don't say a word.
The "president" can send armed, masked, thugs into American cities to terrorize/murder citizens, and the majority of Americans don't say a word.
But when the price of gas & groceries rise, people begin to turn against the ruling regime.
All it takes is a few people, indeed even one registering a complaint, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation will come down on Hegseth and this whole scheme like a ton of bricks. Don't mistake the FFRF for lightweights, either. They kick ass and they take names, and they have a habit of winning.
Tell that to Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. They'll laugh in your face. FFRF has either presented cases to SCOTUS or submitted amicus briefs ... AND WON, and I mean more than once.
If you think they're going to quit fighting just because of your defeatist attitude, you've got another think coming.
Not really. Despite FFRF's many legal victories, the fight to protect separation of church and state is being lost, not won. And when the so-called Supreme Court finally abolishes separation of church and state once and for all, FFRF won't be able to do anything about it. There are no more appeals above SCOTUS.
Yes, FFRF has won many cases at various levels of the judiciary. Nevertheless, they are losing overall. Despite all of FFRF's efforts (as well as many other secular organizations) separation of church and state is DIMINISHING, not increasing. If you think separation of church and state is stronger now than it was before the Trump Regime took control, then YOU've got another thing coming. When the so-called Supreme Court finally abolishes separation of church and state once and for all, FFRF won't be able to do anything about it. There are no more appeals above SCOTUS.
And for the record, when did I ever say that I think FFRF is going to quit fighting? I didn't. You shouldn't make such laughable claims. It makes you look ridiculous.
Most military parents follow orders and know to not question them. Pistol Pete is counting on that. Military leans heavily R because that's who funds them. True fundies.
It had 15 peer reviews!?!? Oh my goodness, that’s fantastic. Fifteen is so many. And peers?! Gosh, were they historian peers or Christian peers? What are their credentials? Similar to The Liar Barton? Honorary degrees and really good family friends? Did you just get your fifteen Hillsdale college history teachers to read it and give it a gold star? I mean, who could question your integrity with such remarkable phrases like “humane cosmopolitanism” to describe chattel slavery and the subjugation of women for centuries, what a gem. How dare folks question this curriculum? It’s flawless.
As I have said before: Only a morally bankrupt cult, devoid of any appeal and acutely aware of its impending irrelevance with future generations, needs to groom children in its violent and hateful doctrines to continue to exist.
The very fact that we have three different posts announcing her departure tells me Dolly was light-years distant from an ordinary person. Gonna miss you something fierce, Ms Parton.
[the book describes wars fought by Christians, such as the Crusades, as intended to defend and protect other Christians.]
Ah, yes... which is why the Crusaders famously murdered a lot of Christians, sacked Constantinople, and committed genocide in Jerusalem.
Also where the famous phrase was spoken to kill them all because God would know his own.
Hell, we don't even have to go back to the middle ages, let's ask people in Northern Ireland how loving and compassionate Christianity was 20 years ago when shit was blowing up and people were murdered in the name of Christ for having the wrong faith and politics.
If you want to see what genuine persecution looks like, hand power to the preachers.
Yes, the 4th Crusade (sacking of Constantinople) is my favorite Crusade. Of course there’s always the 30 yrs war, I especially enjoy Catholic France’s actions supporting the Protestants. And of course the beginnings, the defenestration of Catholics in Prague by the Protestants.
I’m sure Hegseth and company will cover these glorious Christian moments in history.
You don’t even need to go that far back…
Manifest Destiny, American chattel slavery, Jim Crow laws. Also, an estimated 15% to 30% of enslaved Africans brought to North America were Muslims, and they faced systematic, institutional pressure from white slaveholders to abandon their faith and convert to Christianity.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦.
Ummm ... January 6th, 2021, anyone?
The entire history of Europe since the Reformation too. The "age of exploration"... colonialism... the missions... the Magdalena laundries... Native Americans... the KKK... lynchings... the civil rights movement response by white Christians...
What about the history of Europe before the Reformation? The Church was handed the power of the state before 400 c.e.
The 30-Years War?
Or, perhaps, Trump's war with Iran.
Yeah, there sure is that, isn't there?
The Holocaust occurred in Christian Europe.
Right but the Armenian Holocaust occurred in a Muslim nation. True believers are scared of those who are not like them and they relieve their fears by persecuting and killing others.
Doesn’t count; those “patriots” all got righteously pardoned. /s
Uh-huh ... and September 11th, 2001 was just another summer day, too. 😝
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e5556e7b9ddcdb38f9b03326a6239abd425460d5f2c003389c8675c431b5ceb0.jpg
I don't think Petey wants to count that. I also think we shouldn't give him any choice in the matter!
I think their reply would be September 11, 2001. True believers of any faith be it religious or secular are more than willing to commit acts of violence and murder to get their way.
The easiest counter to that is to point out that the KKK and other white supremacist groups are explicitly Christian. Not to mention incidents like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Dr. George Tiller, shot dead as he entered his church.
The very Catholic Hitler, and his troops (with Gott Mitt Uns "God is with us" on their belt buckles) killing Jewish persons and Romany and LGBTQ, and anyone who disagreed with them.
And, they in turn would bring up counterexamples of violence committed by members of other religions. As long as someone thinks that their beliefs be they secular or religious can justify violence, we're going to have this problem. It's a shame that Trump went with someone like Hegseth.
Trump went with Whiskey Pete because he would uphold Trump's desire to turn the military into white conservative men with itchy trigger fingers loyal to Trump and not loyal to the Constitution. Hell, they want to rename an aircraft carrier after Trump because it was originally going to be named after s black man.
"Doris is a chick's name, Sir. We really should name it after the most High-T manly man I know: Donald John Trump!" ~ P. Kegbreath, SecDerp
Trump will sign an executive order mandating he/him pronouns to refer to the ship instead of the customary she/her.
To counter their counter: "So you agree that it is religious extremism that is the problem, regardless of which particular faith it stems from."
I'm pretty sure DG thinks Muslims are coming to kill him in his sleep.
No. I have Muslim friends and interact with Muslims at the hospital where I volunteer. True believers like Hegseth worry me.
I would say that the problem are true believers whether they be secular or religious. The followers of Marx could be just as bloodthirsty as the Inquisition when it came to dealing with people who did not share their views.
Julius seems to get all the attention, but my favorite is Adolph Marx. 😉
Point being: radical, fundamentalist religions generally don't play well with others. For them, it's my way or the highway, and that goes for all three Abrahamic religions. The problem with Hegseth is that he doesn't want to acknowledge the entire playing field, but skew the attention AWAY from Christianity.
He cannot be allowed to do that.
Although there are others, 9/11 is likely the only one most folks can name.....but they just *know* there're countless others.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘’𝑠 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑦.
Like the slave trade? Nowhere in the bible is slavery condemned. Nowhere in the bible does it even hint that women are people, too. Out of the last 20 centuries of Christianity, only for the last 1.5 has Christianity slowly moved toward the realization that women are leople and that slavery is bad. And how many Christians just like Whiskey Pete want to turn back the clock?
𝐼𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 “𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚.”
Uh-oh. Kegsbreath better be careful. "Humane cosmopolitanism" is awfully close to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Like gay people?
Alright folks, here’s the real deal. If we do not vote in November and wipe the board with the Republicans, there will not be an USA anymore. Call me cynical or hyperbolic, but this needs to be ended, now. Anymore leeway for these monsters and they will win. The primaries got plenty of progressives and the centrists can be managed, but we need to end every single GOP candidate’s careers for good. And I feel like we are moving past the point of no violent return.
Zero argument.
No lies detected.
Living in a reddish state, it seems to me like most folks don't understand how bad it's getting quite yet. That's not to say you're wrong, just that the public seems to be turning a blind eye right now, and yeah, that's going to hurt in the long run. I'm worried about what cleaning up the mess might look like in 2028/2029; and if there will even be another presidential election considering just how much SCOTUS is letting DJT get away with.
I'm having a hard time sleeping some nights, hope the rest of you are doing better.
You are not wrong at all
I will do what I can, but in my neck of the woods, it won't make much of a difference. We did get rid of most of the absolute worst of the worst in the primaries, but those that won weren't much better.
Casting Islam as inherently more violent than Christiany? Islam didn't create/run the Inquisitions. The Witch Hunts were also a Christian enterprise, as were the Conquistadors, the convert-or-die missionaries and the slaughter of indiginous peoples of this hemisphere. Christians even went so far as to practice cannibalism on the Muslims during the Crusades.
How about that lovely 4th crusade? Never made it to the Holy Land, sacked the Christian-run city of Constantinople instead in 1204.
https://youtu.be/vsQrKZcYtqg?list=RDvsQrKZcYtqg
Ummm ... how about the Malleus Maleficarum? Promoting violence against women?
Nat-Cs' answer to all of their religion's historical atrocities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b85ZCywAvR4
True but Islam expanded for several hundred years through violence by conquering other nations. Later, they exhibited a degree of tolerance which was anathema to Christendom which embraced violence against non-Christians as in the Spanish Reconquista. I think that most people whatever their beliefs want to live in peace but the true believers won't be satisfied with that.
But but but
Huh?
Constantine imposed his preferred version of Christianity as the state religion. Jews were ALWAYS persecuted in Christian countries. Sure, there were peaceful monks who sailed to remote islands and evangelized - but empires always try to expand, and that's no different in Christian-ruled empires than in early Muslim-ruled empires. The specific type of religion is used as a tool, a unifying political / social factor in conquest. Note that the founding myth (Mayflower, etc) of the USA is that settlers were Christian and were escaping persecution by other Christians in their home countries. 99% of "religious" motivation is indistinguishable from efforts to grab territory and assets.
True but early Christianity for a few centuries spread through individual conversions as compared to Islam which used military force to spread itself across the world. But, we Christians proved that we could also use military force once we had access to it.
The evangelicals never stop pushing their religion as the solution to all the world problems, while always turning a blind eye to the countless horrors perpetrated by Christians in the name of Christianity. Pickled Pete Hegseth is the most grotesquely incompetent and unfit person to ever lead our military.
Well, what do you expect from people who are certain that the Bible is ‘inerrant’? This text book starts with that premise and then adds that white christians are always right. It is just another instance of Christian Nationalism screaming hooray for our tribe!
There is little to nothing in the way of objective evidence to validate the Bible.
And it was written, rewritten, and heavily edited over about an 800 year period. If we had the autograph (originally released version) of each book, it would be a completely different critter.
A completely different critter, perhaps, but no more credible than it currently is.
Divine inspiration isn't an explanation, it's an excuse
I'd call it special pleading, actually, but fair enough.
I almost feel bad for the people I know who seem to think that because some real historic places and people are mentioned in the Bible, that is ‘proves’ it is an historic account of events.
Of course, I respond to such folks that Spider-Man operates in New York City, so that means Spider-Man is real.
Spider-Man is real. He was fighting Jake Paul in Minnesota the other day.
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/authorities-identify-minneapolis-spider-man-arrested-for-assault-at-jake-lang-rally
It also has boundless nonsense. The Gospels are so discordant that if you believe one, the others fall by the wayside if you don’t have mindless cognitive dissonance.
"Christianity" Keep all religion out of the United States military. Start with eliminating the U.S. military spending millions to tax dollars on religions. Their nothing but trouble, causing division and discrimination.
At this time few of the top religions are actually financially supported by the U.S. military. In a country where freedom of all religions is emphasized.
https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list
Embarrassing and sad 😟
Oh, I believe Kimball when he claims the curriculum was peer-reviewed- trouble is, all his peers are just as pig-ignorant and bigoted as he is.
Peer review.
https://ibb.co/dJpw6RMt
He meant pear reviewed. Took it out to the orchard and no one complained.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
If there ever was a good billionaire she'd be one.
I found myself getting somewhat teary when I learned she was gone.
Me too. Is there another person in this world that could match up to Dolly in her attitude and ebullience? I'm coming up empty here. 😥
I usually don’t think too much when older celebrities die, just “well, they had a good run”. Dolly Parton though. Aside from her musical talents she was a stellar human being who had a positive impact on millions with her philanthropy and her down to earth, matter of fact support for humans targeted for bigotry. The world was made better by her presence.
Dolly is with her Jesus Christ God in her heaven. Condolences RIP 😔
One of the few good Christians.
If ever there was a good and decent and caring person, Dolly Parton was that in spades. I think back to her appearance on The Orville, and what a delight she was. I hope she had the time of her life, doing that episode.
Hillsdale is pure Evangeliban.
Not a damn bit better than Taliban.
Further Thought: I can't help but suspect that, once parents get wind of this change in curriculum, at least some of them will be screaming bloody murder about it and insist that their school system return to a course structure better based in FACTS, rather than Christian propaganda.
Hegseth thinks he can run roughshod over the educational system. He needs a little educating of his own.
"Soldier, your wife is getting pretty lippy about the school situation, and the higher-ups aren't happy. You'd better get her under control before we ship her and the kids back to the States and your career is over. Understood?"
"Hello, Mikey Weinstein? I'm getting some flack for my superiors here and I could use some support..."
Sadly, that is the most likely scenario.
The hook is that these parents are military people, so they have to be extremely careful about criticizing the Department of Defense leadership. In this environment, they will find themselves in trouble with their own leadership.
A lot of that depends on how reasonable their mid-line officer corps are and how receptive they are to the needs of the enlisted, as well as their own ranks. I simply do not see this issue getting swept under the rug.
I believe you are right. How many military people refused to murder people in boats, when there was ZERO EVIDENCE they were “drug runners”.
It is pretty obvious that Pete’s education didn’t take.
Maybe a few would scream bloody murder, but most won't even blink. In my experience, the vast majority of Americans don't give a damn about history (or democracy, for that matter). Most people only care about their spending power.
Consider:
The "president" can mount a multi-pronged assault against voting rights, and most Americans don't say a word.
The "president" can send armed, masked, thugs into American cities to terrorize/murder citizens, and the majority of Americans don't say a word.
But when the price of gas & groceries rise, people begin to turn against the ruling regime.
That's America for you.
All it takes is a few people, indeed even one registering a complaint, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation will come down on Hegseth and this whole scheme like a ton of bricks. Don't mistake the FFRF for lightweights, either. They kick ass and they take names, and they have a habit of winning.
I'm familiar with FFRF. All such organizations are powerless against the Christian Nationalist majority on the so-called Supreme Court.
Tell that to Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. They'll laugh in your face. FFRF has either presented cases to SCOTUS or submitted amicus briefs ... AND WON, and I mean more than once.
If you think they're going to quit fighting just because of your defeatist attitude, you've got another think coming.
Bravo!
Not really. Despite FFRF's many legal victories, the fight to protect separation of church and state is being lost, not won. And when the so-called Supreme Court finally abolishes separation of church and state once and for all, FFRF won't be able to do anything about it. There are no more appeals above SCOTUS.
Yes, FFRF has won many cases at various levels of the judiciary. Nevertheless, they are losing overall. Despite all of FFRF's efforts (as well as many other secular organizations) separation of church and state is DIMINISHING, not increasing. If you think separation of church and state is stronger now than it was before the Trump Regime took control, then YOU've got another thing coming. When the so-called Supreme Court finally abolishes separation of church and state once and for all, FFRF won't be able to do anything about it. There are no more appeals above SCOTUS.
And for the record, when did I ever say that I think FFRF is going to quit fighting? I didn't. You shouldn't make such laughable claims. It makes you look ridiculous.
https://youtu.be/WtuoFv4dcwM?list=RDWtuoFv4dcwM
Oh. Wait. Did you mean think?
Pedantically yours.
Agreed, "the vast majority of Americans" in North and South America including the United States.
God Bless America? 🤔
Yeah, I know. I'm talking about the U.S. I usually try to avoid using the generic term "Americans," but sometimes I get lazy and it slips out.
Understandable with all the MAGA cult and Christian nationalist influences in the United States. 🤪
Most military parents follow orders and know to not question them. Pistol Pete is counting on that. Military leans heavily R because that's who funds them. True fundies.
Most, perhaps. Maybe not all, and maybe with a sympathetic superior officer. As I said before, all it takes is one.
It had 15 peer reviews!?!? Oh my goodness, that’s fantastic. Fifteen is so many. And peers?! Gosh, were they historian peers or Christian peers? What are their credentials? Similar to The Liar Barton? Honorary degrees and really good family friends? Did you just get your fifteen Hillsdale college history teachers to read it and give it a gold star? I mean, who could question your integrity with such remarkable phrases like “humane cosmopolitanism” to describe chattel slavery and the subjugation of women for centuries, what a gem. How dare folks question this curriculum? It’s flawless.
As I have said before: Only a morally bankrupt cult, devoid of any appeal and acutely aware of its impending irrelevance with future generations, needs to groom children in its violent and hateful doctrines to continue to exist.
White Claw Petey Kegbreath is, on his very best days, bloody effin' incompetent.
Is it me, or is Petey trying too hard to come across as butch?
He likes sweaty, buff manly men.
So he likes Trump.
(OK, 1 out of 3 ain’t bad)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3u__vZj3sQE?feature=share
It's just FAAAA-BU-LOUUUUUUS!
Oh ... like John Beluchi in that old SNL skit! 😁
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf38f1a3b59d631afc02fb322b0c12b98cf59a84d605d853ab7da0bca42825b1.jpg
Now 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 how to miss the point by landing on it!
I do believe that that is the first thing that I've heard him say that is true.
(That's a lot of thats.)
How easily he forgets.
We're going to remember that you said that, Donnie! 😝
Sorry to be a party pooper, but this just showed up on my newsfeed:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/did-trump-say-us-was-dumb-country-led-by-very-stupid-person-one-year-ago/ar-AA2aV7AM
OT: We lost a legend. Dolly is no more, she has ceased to be.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/dolly-parton-dead-dies-country-music-1236842727/
The very fact that we have three different posts announcing her departure tells me Dolly was light-years distant from an ordinary person. Gonna miss you something fierce, Ms Parton.
Pinning for Pigeon Forge.
More proof there is no god. If a beneficent god existed, it would take Fuckface Von Clownstick long before Dolly..
OT
I know it's not the same as Dolly, but seeing the articles on her passing reminded me of the following:
For those who ever dreamed of Jeannie, Barbara Eden turned 95 two days ago.
I wish Dolly could’ve lived as long, in as good health. 🥺