Religion *is* politics

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Without doubt, he thinks Puerto Rico should have been grateful

Any US soldiers Pete Hegseth sends into Iran without attending them himself will absolutely surrender to the Iranians with gratitude at their first opportunity, and I hear that’s already happening

Atheists can hardly agree more with James Talarico

Why don’t all Christians?

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Imagine an incel recruiting young men to an organization of misogynists on the logic that this will make them more appealing to women

When I was growing up, my ✝️ and ✡️ relatives often identified Muslims with Satan

I don’t believe in Satan

But I do believe in personifying evil because evil actions come from people

And you can’t say your enemies were the devil when your agent was Jeffrey Epstein

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The Houston Chronicle’s morning update was dreadful

First there’s a list of local billionaires, longer than ever

Next Exxon is taking legal steps to brand itself Texan

Despite so many billionaires, such valuable community members, doing so well, this city is closing school districts to save money

Before long, no nation will be able to survive that is dependent on fossil fuels

In one week we have seen that neither nuclear bombs nor the full might of the US military will be enough to colonize the Middle East

And for that I’m grateful

It doesn’t matter if a confidence man believes what he says

It only matters if his followers do

And she almost won

It’s easy to imagine that on another timeline she might have

The silent ones who stay home and don’t vote for a woman next time will not necessarily be the same ones who did last time, or for the same reasons

I agree with your instincts here although I am not ready to narrow the field to straight white men

I do think Kelly and Beshear are my favorites on their own merits and I don’t like Newsom any farther than I can throw him

I agree with you in general, but polling showed Biden would have done worse, and plenty of intelligent middle aged straight white guys could have lost too

He wants to make sure his children have an easy time bullying people with different skin color and he calls other people demons

Certainly Trump was triangulating with Israel for a long time, and certainly his friendships with Russia go back to the 80s

People are saying the war was started to divert attention from the Epstein files

But actually, the files themselves, and the war, were both started for the same reason

To serve the national interests of Israel

So they can treat the Middle East like the Wild West

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If citizens of most countries were like average American conservatives, they would think the worst thing Trump did was the tariffs, because that’s the one thing he did that affects them all the same way

And average American conservatives don’t even see that as a problem

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It doesn’t matter if the pedophiles are Satanists or Christians

It matters if they fit in at church

If they fit in at church, they can even be vampires

Church is where they hide, launder, play, work and groom

It doesn’t matter if the leaders believe what they say

It matters if the followers do

Because he already bragged about doing it publicly and they still voted for him three times anyway

Isn’t that what it means to be free?

Yes, but their children’s own agency is the legacy that any parent should want

Ever since 9/11, Christians have been asking Muslims to apologize

Pete Hegseth’s pastor preached a sermon that week calling for theocracy

Many believed it

Now, Hegseth is bombing Iran for explicitly theocratic reasons

And yet, no Christian believes him

Nor do they see a need to apologize either

When you are homeschooled as a Christian, you do not have to be ten years old before you notice gaps in history

When the gaps were filled in, I learned, invariably, they were because my people had gone to those places and destroyed the history there in order to keep their own religion plausible

It’s hard to be friends with family when they voted 3 times to bring about the end of the world

Did they actually believe their votes would bring about the end?

No

They thought it was going to happen whether they voted for it or not & they thought if they voted for it then they would live forever

When they say he’s not who they voted for, tell them

The Trump who denied Obama’s birth certificate in 2012 was the same who campaigned in 2016, 2020 & 2024

He was the same who flew warplanes over the Epstein survivors

And he was the same who bombed a school full of girls for Israel

Apparently men younger than me are twice as likely as men older than me to believe women must submit to men

If you tell them to touch grass it will be like hitting below the belt

These men aren’t lonely enough

And I wish them a life of incelibacy

Look at Spain 150 years ago

Look at the United States

And look at them now

My, how the table turns

As if there would be something wrong with that

If pressed, he will say Jesus is the cure for every disease, whether or not he knows about it

Which condition?

A church functions according to design

It will always tend to forgive a paying predator 70 X 7

It will blame victims as soon as they don’t forgive

As long as a church believes human justice is worth less than that of Jesus, it will be a haven and a hunting ground

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