FFRF might not be calling for an end to churches tax exempt status, but I sure as shit am. Christianity is an existential threat to the country and the world and it needs to be eradicated with extreme prejudice.
Damn. Once again, the right is saying the quiet part out loud, and they're not even trying to make a secret of it. To be honest, as I read the above, I found myself giving SERIOUS thought to forwarding this article to the producers of CBS News 60 Minutes, with a STRONG recommendation that they dig into both the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
While much of this agenda would be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, the gears of government would grind to a halt. Plus I fear the current iteration of the Court might be sympathetic to at least some of this crap. Make sure everyone you know votes against every republican in 2024. They must be crushed.
So which Christian sect gets to be top dog? Project 2025 could just as easily used on the Christians own brethren who don't belong to the "right" sect. Christianity has a long and bloody history of persecuting its own.
The left, be it the Democratic Party as part of their campaigning, or activist organizations like FFRF, and others, need to get on top of this and start blasting the narrative as what it truly is before the Heritage Foundation can spin this as desirable to the empty headed masses. We have to take control of the narrative in the media. Remind people that the religion Heritage Foundation is promoting is not their religion and they will be forced to comply. That the restrictions on abortion will end up restricting all mail order prescriptions, or change the way we do commerce between states. How they will lose money and financial security with the stagnation in wages they promote or even how their convenience will be affected if all businesses are closed on Sundays. They think Hobby Lobby and chik-fil-a are fine, yet once their competitors are also closed, they’ll be screaming about their precious needs as they did during the two week shutdown in 2020.
This is very serious and the best way, the only way, to combat it is to get ahead of them with the narrative. Remind the people that the GOP is going after social security, and your wages, and your freedoms. Because they are and folks will get the point eventually. Remind folks that this government shutdown scare was brought to you by the GOP and no one else.
As I said earlier, they clearly have ZERO PROBLEM in saying the quiet part out loud anymore, or at least where they think they won't get any blowback. What say we give 'em lots and Lots and LOTS of blowback!
The millionaire "shepherds" laying out specific battle plans for the sheep, who aren't bright enuf to figure out that they too are being herded toward the slauterhouse.
After reading this, I feel like I should be ordering flowers for the funeral of the country.
It's rare to see a document with such targeted specific hatred and vitriol toward everyone not part of the right crowd. What's worse is that it's pretty obvious that even if these people were to get their way lock, stock, and barrel, that wouldn't be enough for them, they'd start persecuting their own just so they'd have someone to make miserable. I don't even understand how in the h3ll people get this twisted anymore.
At this point, I'm going to go look at pics of cute kittens and puppies and hope that makes me feel a little better; then I'm going to go play some Final Fantasy 14. It's patch day, so I should be nicely distracted for a bit. And when November rolls around, I'm going to vote Democrat as a birthday present to myself and hope enough folks agree with me to keep these asylum-escapees out of office.
In spite of being a shrinking minority, the religious right has deluded themselves into believing they can take an authoritarian top-down approach to governance with a happy ending. They seek to accomplish through government and the courts what they have failed to get done from their pulpits. If Americans wanted the kind of government they envision we would have one, but they clearly do not. The people pushing these measures do not seem to be anticipating any push back. They're in for a surprise. If you want to see what persecution looks like . . . hand power to the preachers.
Heterosexual marriages last twice as long as same-sex marriages. Citation please, especially since same-sex marriages haven't even been legal for 20 years yet anywhere in the country. And only nationwide for 8 years.
FFRF might not be calling for an end to churches tax exempt status, but I sure as shit am. Christianity is an existential threat to the country and the world and it needs to be eradicated with extreme prejudice.
Damn. Once again, the right is saying the quiet part out loud, and they're not even trying to make a secret of it. To be honest, as I read the above, I found myself giving SERIOUS thought to forwarding this article to the producers of CBS News 60 Minutes, with a STRONG recommendation that they dig into both the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
Actually ... back in a minute or so...
While much of this agenda would be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court, the gears of government would grind to a halt. Plus I fear the current iteration of the Court might be sympathetic to at least some of this crap. Make sure everyone you know votes against every republican in 2024. They must be crushed.
The following was just posted to CBS's "Contact Us" page, with specific attention to their News division and the program, "60 Minutes:"
𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝐻𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑀𝑒ℎ𝑡𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝐴𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘:
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/project-2025-a-christian-nationalist
𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑠 "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛" 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛, 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑 "𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 2025." 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦, 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦. 𝐻𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 2025, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑥𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜-𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑠𝑖𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦, 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑓. 𝐼 𝑆𝑇𝑅𝑂𝑁𝐺𝐿𝑌 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒 60 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 2025 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚-𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑡.
I see serious attention to this business as being very damned necessary, and I urge those of you who are US citizens to take similar action.
So which Christian sect gets to be top dog? Project 2025 could just as easily used on the Christians own brethren who don't belong to the "right" sect. Christianity has a long and bloody history of persecuting its own.
Be careful what you wish for, Christians.
The left, be it the Democratic Party as part of their campaigning, or activist organizations like FFRF, and others, need to get on top of this and start blasting the narrative as what it truly is before the Heritage Foundation can spin this as desirable to the empty headed masses. We have to take control of the narrative in the media. Remind people that the religion Heritage Foundation is promoting is not their religion and they will be forced to comply. That the restrictions on abortion will end up restricting all mail order prescriptions, or change the way we do commerce between states. How they will lose money and financial security with the stagnation in wages they promote or even how their convenience will be affected if all businesses are closed on Sundays. They think Hobby Lobby and chik-fil-a are fine, yet once their competitors are also closed, they’ll be screaming about their precious needs as they did during the two week shutdown in 2020.
This is very serious and the best way, the only way, to combat it is to get ahead of them with the narrative. Remind the people that the GOP is going after social security, and your wages, and your freedoms. Because they are and folks will get the point eventually. Remind folks that this government shutdown scare was brought to you by the GOP and no one else.
Just for fun, I Googled "Project 2025," and guess what I found! First of all:
https://www.project2025.org
Also, this enlightening brief description, listed immediately below that link, with the label: "What is Project 2025 Plan:
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑎 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑦 – 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ – 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
As I said earlier, they clearly have ZERO PROBLEM in saying the quiet part out loud anymore, or at least where they think they won't get any blowback. What say we give 'em lots and Lots and LOTS of blowback!
The millionaire "shepherds" laying out specific battle plans for the sheep, who aren't bright enuf to figure out that they too are being herded toward the slauterhouse.
TL;DR
Republicans: Unless, you are under my thumb, you are oppressing me.
The world was once ruled by religion. NatCs see the Dark Ages as the good old days.
After reading this, I feel like I should be ordering flowers for the funeral of the country.
It's rare to see a document with such targeted specific hatred and vitriol toward everyone not part of the right crowd. What's worse is that it's pretty obvious that even if these people were to get their way lock, stock, and barrel, that wouldn't be enough for them, they'd start persecuting their own just so they'd have someone to make miserable. I don't even understand how in the h3ll people get this twisted anymore.
At this point, I'm going to go look at pics of cute kittens and puppies and hope that makes me feel a little better; then I'm going to go play some Final Fantasy 14. It's patch day, so I should be nicely distracted for a bit. And when November rolls around, I'm going to vote Democrat as a birthday present to myself and hope enough folks agree with me to keep these asylum-escapees out of office.
In spite of being a shrinking minority, the religious right has deluded themselves into believing they can take an authoritarian top-down approach to governance with a happy ending. They seek to accomplish through government and the courts what they have failed to get done from their pulpits. If Americans wanted the kind of government they envision we would have one, but they clearly do not. The people pushing these measures do not seem to be anticipating any push back. They're in for a surprise. If you want to see what persecution looks like . . . hand power to the preachers.
OT : finally back. Now I want to understand why I had a local anesthesia for the main surgery and a total anesthesia for the check up 🤪
Heterosexual marriages last twice as long as same-sex marriages. Citation please, especially since same-sex marriages haven't even been legal for 20 years yet anywhere in the country. And only nationwide for 8 years.
Well, there we have it, folks. The writing is officially on the wall. Ignore it at 𝘢𝘭𝘭 of our peril.
Proof that Christians are traitors.