Simply the weirdest people imaginable exist in the public eye
I'm in Asheville, N.C. right now, and the weirdest people you could imagine are voting for RFK. I cannot imagine any sane person giving that lunatic a vote.
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Well, we're also all Canadian and from a large city in Canada. From the perspective of the average US voter we're all pretty far left.
Which makes it even more hilarious when a sizable portion of Cp's userbase tries to act like this message board is a bunch of woke, progressives on the left.
Those are awful numbers. I don’t know if churches are worse than other human organizations (it seems like it) but the extra layer of hypocrisy reinforce my position as an atheist.
Sorry, this struck a nerve because of the craziness going on in the United States right now.
Anything to do with fundamentalist beliefs, regardless of religious or ideological position, is a bridge too far. When you start believing in these religious texts as historically accurate and the actual word of God, you've gone off the deep end and ready for a rubber room. These books are nothing more than Harry Potter fan fiction and anyone basing their lives around their word are truly a danger to themselves and society. If there is a God, it granted us free thought for a reason. Refusing to use that gift and suspend it to believe the fantasy written in these religious texts is the ultimate afront to the supreme being. But it does establish the foundation for their hypocrisy and tips their hand about the theocracy they are trying to establish.
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And trust me, I’m not concerned about the good name of evangelicals. The degree to which they support Trump and overlook his manifest faults is another great example of hypocrisy.
I'm not anti-religion, but Evangelicals are the worst and make all reference to religion intolerable as a result. They are the ultimate hypocrites and do everything with the intent of making others comply with their will. Politically, they fall in with the "freedom" crowd and elimination of any regulation they deem infringes on their precious freedoms. At the same time, they work to take away the freedoms of others. They cry about taking away things from them, but then they push to take away the most basic of rights, the freedom of choice. Everyone should have the freedom to choose their own path and accept the consequences of those actions. Unfortunately, Evangelicals don't want that and they are fighting to take freedom of choice in all regards away from you. You will comply with their will, and they are assuming positions of power to shape our society to execute their beliefs.
These Evangelicals are really nothing more than Christofascists who are bent on indoctrinating the whole country, then world, into their twisted wackadoodle beliefs. Their Seven Mountains strategy has taken root and allowing widespread changes to the United States in ways we should be terrified about. They have assumed control over the most power organs of government, education, the military, and the media. They are doing everything in their power to reframe what the definition of "family" is, how religion should be approached, and how religion and politics should be merged to reshape the nation. Every aspect of our lives now features Christofascist interference, and it's only getting worse.
Keep an eye on Oklahoma as the Christofascists try to entrench their politico-religious ideology on the education system there. This is the most over action they have taken, but they rarely whisper their intentions anymore. In Arizona, and many other states around the country, the Mormon Church is taking over education through charter schools. They create semi-private schools with reliance on their church's teachings, and build these academies everywhere, with innocuous names like American Leadership Academy, or anything named after a founding father. These institutions ARE indoctrination centers into American greatness AND their twisted brand of intertwining religion and politics. The most obscene aspect of these schools is they receive public funding, because they are "open to the public" (if you meet and maintain their grade requirements, which most minorities do not for a full semester). It is appalling and dangerous.
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I’m just pushing back against broad brush slurring if people I don’t agree with, as much as I disagree with those slurs against people I support. If someone wants those kinds of interactions go to Twitter. Let’s try to keep CP somewhat civil.
I get keeping thins civil, based on the trash we see from the posters who support these folks I have no problem with the backlash they receive. The absolute abhorrent positions these people support deserve to be ridiculed and belittled. To me, they are nothing more than Flat Earthers, and if you give Flat Earthers more than a second of time they will ruin your day with their ridiculousness. Don't let them distract you with their nonsense. In fact, do anything that continues to marginalize their twisted views because people fall for the false equivalency nonsense all the time. This has extended the discussion of important issues like climate change because of the noise we grant to those with no basis in reality, all in hopes of maintaining a "fair" and "civil" debate. I'd much rather see a debate on the issues and facts and keep the fringe thoughts where they belong, on the fringe, and not give them a platform to spread their craziness.
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45% of Americans say religion is "very important" in their life, with another 26% saying it is "fairly important" and 28% saying it's "not very important."
Only 22% of Americans say they have no religious affiliation. That number is even lower (20%) for immigrants.
The most religiously observant demographic in the U.S. is Black women, 64% of whom say religion is very important to their lives, and 58% of whom believe you can’t be a moral person if you don’t have religious faith.
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When they think about God or some other higher power, clear majorities of Black Americans think of a powerful entity with a presence in earthly affairs. Most say they believe in a God who “has the power to direct or change everything that goes on in the world” (81%), who “will judge all people on what they have done” (74%), and who “directly determines what happens in your life” all (44%) or most (24%) of the time. Around half of Black Americans say that God or the higher power they believe in talks to them directly (48%).
When you combine that with the high religiosity of American Latinos, an atheist has little chance of winning the Democratic nomination in the U.S. in the next couple decades, let alone the presidency.
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If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
Yeah, the US I believe are fairly unique in the sense that normally, the higher the education level a country's population is and the more developed that country's economy is, the lower the rate of religiosity the population are.
Lifetime appointments are a joke. Need to get this guy and his wife the heck out of there.
He never should have been confirmed in the first place, after he refused to be questioned about the Anita Hill thing he should have been punted not trusted for the highest court in the land.
And I hope the 10 or so Dems that crossed party lines to confirm him are ashamed after RvW
45% of Americans say religion is "very important" in their life, with another 26% saying it is "fairly important" and 28% saying it's "not very important."
Only 22% of Americans say they have no religious affiliation. That number is even lower (20%) for immigrants.
The most religiously observant demographic in the U.S. is Black women, 64% of whom say religion is very important to their lives, and 58% of whom believe you can’t be a moral person if you don’t have religious faith.
When you combine that with the high religiosity of American Latinos, an atheist has little chance of winning the Democratic nomination in the U.S. in the next couple decades, let alone the presidency.
Amazing how well intergenerational indoctrination works, eh?
Amazing how well intergenerational indoctrination works, eh?
You kind of have to appreciate responding to the problem of evangelicals, christofascism, indoctrination, and misguided public funding with “Black women are religious!!”, though.
I mean, hey. Black women are religious, guys. Black women. Can you believe it?
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45% of Americans say religion is "very important" in their life, with another 26% saying it is "fairly important" and 28% saying it's "not very important."
Only 22% of Americans say they have no religious affiliation. That number is even lower (20%) for immigrants.
The most religiously observant demographic in the U.S. is Black women, 64% of whom say religion is very important to their lives, and 58% of whom believe you can’t be a moral person if you don’t have religious faith.
When you combine that with the high religiosity of American Latinos, an atheist has little chance of winning the Democratic nomination in the U.S. in the next couple decades, let alone the presidency.
This is not really 1+1=2 as religion doesn't correlate with voting patterns as well as race and urban/rural divide. African American polling shows overwhelming preference for the Democratic Party vs Republican. For whites and Latinos, the urban/rural divide is far, far more telling than religiosity.
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