Why does this exercise me so? It brought to mind the interview Will Smith gave a couple of years back, in which he told the audience that he hopes that the voters would now reflect on the destructive aspects of “loveless, godless leadership”. As if godlessness were a pejorative term. Not even ungodly. Godless. In other words, being of the mind that God likely doesn’t exist is seen as an inferior moral position than believing he does exist but that you’re against him.
So much of our political discourse is distorted by this American obsession with God. Democrats and Republicans both invoke God when attempting to appeal to unity. They often go further, each framing their criticisms of the other in terms of how ungodly their opposing party is, and how much more in-line with God they are. So much time is wasted. So much political nuance is lost. Our politics are mentally enfeebled by it, like a WWE event gatecrashing a book reading on Western philosophy.
Florida Teachers Alarmed by State’s Push for Religion in Civics https://www.governing.com/now/florida-teachers-alarmed-by-states-push-for-religion-in-civics
Damn Christian fascists leading the nation to theocracy. (And anyone going to give me shit about "picking on Xians," you can go fuck right off. I don't hear the other religions doing this. I am not worried schools are going to become madrasas, yeshivas, or covens anytime soon. STFU with the perfomative denseness.
Yikes. A sobering warning for those making difficult end of life decisions for our loved ones.
This is so on-point.
https://youtu.be/6b-0dA8eBrw
Here's your regular reminder that faith is neither a virtue, nor a path to the truth.
https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/christian-hate-preacher-calls-for-the-execution-of-every-single-homosexual/
Exactly where does this radicalized garden gnome get off? Why wouldn't you let atheists escape?
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/05/15/Kadyrov-asks-Erdogan-not-to-evacuate-murderers-atheists-at-Azovstal-plant
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