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oraxx's avatar

Mixing religion and government is the same terrible idea it has always been. Ironically, the harder the evangelicals try to use the legislatures and courts to achieve what they failed to accomplish from their pulpits, the more people they alienate. A mind-set dominated by magical thinking just can't quite grasp the fact people do not want someone else's religion imposed on them, and they're not going to passively submit to it.

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Someone doesn't have to go to church to necessarily think that they are "righteous" or in with god or whatever label they want to use to consider themselves ... while at the same time being bigoted, chauvinistic, white supremacist and/or anti-LGBTQ+. I think it needs to be remembered that a given individual THINKING they are religious or aligned with religion 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗢 𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗛.

And it wouldn't surprise me if a considerable count of such people constituted the "basket of deplorables" which Hillary Clinton so accurately described during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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