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Originally Posted by gabfest
wow, a certain population's decline = an evolving society.
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A population that is becoming less religious is, indeed, evolving.
I don't know ... perhaps you haven't been paying a whole lot of attention ... but this nation has become a better place by throwing out religion as the dominant moral compass for our society.
American Christianity is a travesty. It's really less of a religion these days than it is the Sex and Gender Police.
That's all religion really cares about -- that you behave in the way in which your genitalia implies. In other words, Christianity uses whatever is between your legs as the moral compass for our society. No homosexuality, no same-sex marriage, no transgenders, no transvestites, and under NO circumstances should you EVER behave like the opposite sex in any capacity whatsoever.
A few years ago, the Council of Bishops at the Vatican actually sent a warning to all American nuns: You are spending too much time helping the poor and needy and not enough time condemning and opposing gay marriage.
Yeah ... this is why moving away from religion is evolving like the Cambrian Explosion.
And Christianity has never EVER mobilized with such completeness and capacity than when gays wanted the right to marry. Perhaps the last time Christianity mobilized in such a fashion was during the 1980s when it tried to impose theocratic fascism onto our basic freedoms; they (the fundamentalists) ran hither and yon through most of that decade having book burnings, going on censorship binges, vandalizing public libraries, going on crusade against rock music, and essentially acting like the religious Nazis they were back then.
Sure, Christianity does some good works -- if you're in need of a winter coat, a crappy toy for your kids at Christmas, a hot meal, and a cot filled with mystery stains to sleep on (assuming you can get one before they all run out).
Notice how Matadora's post said:
White evangelical Protestants remain the dominant religious force in the GOP.
This is why religion -- especially fundamentalist religion -- is like living in the bloody Dark Ages.
Remember that white evangelical Protestants support Trump and the Republican party. The Republicans want to trash the Medicaid program by gutting its funding by over 50% so that people making over $250,000 per year can have a big fat tax break. They want to rape the Disability program, as well, for the same reason.
White evangelical Protestants support this -- EVEN when they, themselves, are on Medicaid or Disability!!
As I said elsewhere many moons ago: In 1946, the Allies held the Nuremburg trials whereby thousands of Nazis were executed for "crimes against humanity" for having their signatures on just one document authorizing the deaths of even a handful of Jews.
Therefore, politicians who knowingly and willfully vote for a bill that will quite literally kill thousands, if not tens of thousands, of innocent American citizens who would be thrown off Medicaid and lose their access to the treatments and medications keeping them alive are as guilty of "crimes against humanity" as any Nazi. Perhaps Paul Ryan and Gang should be strung up just like the Hitlerites were ...?
I bring this up because it shows how far afield American Christianity -- at least the fundamentalist and evangelical segment of it -- has fallen from the teachings of Jesus. So much so that even calling them "Christian" is an insult to the Christian religion.
Once again, perhaps you're not paying much attention, but there seems to be very little "spirituality" in America's religion. The very squeaky wheel that is fundamentalism in this country only cares about pushing its fascistic, oppressive, sexist, misogynistic, gender-policing, censoring/banning, sometimes racist, and often times hateful rules onto the rest of society while supporting and voting for politicians who literally ... yeah, that's right,
literally ... try to pass legislation that will indirectly murder thousands of America's poor and needy.
Not very Christian-like, now, is it, given that Jesus was very clear in how the poor ought to be treated, for they shall inherit the earth while rich folk are trying to squeeze that camel through the needle's eye. The so-called "Christian" right are the main reason why America is the ONLY nation on the planet without universal health care; we're still a backwards nation that gives the wealthy a tacitly granted right to live longer, healthier life than the poor.
Yep, the fewer people who subscribe to this unholy and barbaric mixture of Christianity and right-wing fascist extremism, the better.
EVOLVING.
Because we have light years to go before we even begin to catch up to all of those "horrible" secular nations who have booted religion to the curb.
I'd even get into the latent Puritanism that still pervades our culture and why it has made our civilization so toxic, but I've written enough already. Yet, if we could strangle the life out of most of those nasty Puritanical values still lurking within our culture, we could evolve even more, be more enlightened still!
But no ... if anything, we're devolving thanks to all of those wonderful GOP Christians who elected a full-on racist to the oval office thus emboldening the worst individuals and groups American society has to offer.
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