Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent First Things essay, “Our Christian Nation,” may warm the hearts of Christian nationalists and confound historians and theologians who worry about continuing threats to the separation of church and state.
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent First Things essay, “Our Christian Nation,” may warm the hearts of Christian nationalists and confound historians and theologians who worry about continuing threats to the separation of church and state.
Your entire rebuttal is right wing fantasy. Not everyone has religious parents they live with, let alone have the need to lie to constantly. You may perceive this country as religious, but it is not, by law. Law and money run things in this country. Not sky Fairies.
Not a right-wing fantasy. Its what happens when you live in a right-wing community.
When the law and the money believe in the sky fairies, they will enact the Sky Fairy Will in some truly brutal fashion.
This would require the sky fairy to be real. Your culture is on its way to the landfill. All you have are two bit con artist snake oil salesmen like Kenneth Copeland, filling their pockets. Morons. Scum. The death rattle of a bygone era, relegated to the dustbin of history. You should stop fighting progress, they’ll be the ones your children will grow to love.
Kill in the name of God and your victim will be just as dead as if you killed for secular reasons.
Thinkers have been making this claim since the first Enlightenment, back in 1685. But people are as prone to reading messages in their tea leaves now as they were a millennium ago. I don’t see any evidence to conclude that modern day Satanic Panics are less likely than they were under Reagan. And given the number of TV ghost hunters and TikTok psychics and QAnon Shamen I see popping up in my social media feeds, we’re no less likely to kick off another Salem style witch hunt than we were 300 years ago.
My guy, I need to see some progress before I worry about fighting it.
Christians are only 3% in Norway, soon to be worldwide
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Norway
They’re still over 60% of the population of the United States. They get some illegal special treatment here. There’s some push back but it’s always an uphill battle. The country is no less a pit than Saudi, the preferred imaginary despot is just v2.0 instead of v3.0.
35% at most, even then , only maybe 5% actually MAGA yeehawdists
Where are you getting these numbers from? I’m seeing 70% from Pew Research and 69% from Gallup being some kind of Christian. As for the Christian Fascism in the country I’m seeing 30% from NPR would still support our wannabe dictator even if convicted of crimes.
Brutal violence , like good Christian folk. Cowards can’t even have a conversation without trying to threaten people.
Edit: typical Conservative, threatening people to intimidate them, then erasing it. Cowards
I think you’ve lost the thread. They are explaining why you are privileged not to have to lie by giving examples of situations that would compel many people to lie.
Would you say that you’ve been in any of those situations?
The whole lying bit itself was a “lost the thread” moment because it was in response to someone saying that they couldn’t say something nice about USA without lying. Which has nothing to do with lying to protect yourself or your position. Turning an offhand “I don’t like lying” into a lecture about privilege isn’t going to win any allies.
Lost the thread to a theist on an atheist instance. Lol sure. Atheist are not as incredibly dumb as theists and have a bit more logical thought than that.
Now I think you’re a loser because you’ve lost the thread and misinterpreted what I said to mean you’re losing.
I am not a theist and I see that you’re just not paying attention to what you’re responding to. Almost like Christians to preach while closing your eyes and ears.
When you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger. Go ahead IDGAF