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  1. Christian nationalism is about cultural and racial hegemony. They believe white and Christian culture should be so dominant that they will just issue a fatwah and make their religious views dominate everyone. They have this same attitude in every culture war and religious issue is basically this same grievance. This is the exact same dominance that southern man has had going back for hundreds of years...it has just been remarketed in a different form to be more palatable for the 21st century. But the end result is the same. They dominate and push out diverse faces and ideas and they set the agenda completely without any input. At this point the national Republican party is basically the same as an old southern party. It is basically a "whites only" party and that is its whole platform and reason for existence as it has shed any actual ideology and policy positions in favor of grievance. It is the National Association for the Advancement of White People NAAWP.
  2. What percentage of Christian nationalists and evangelicals vote for the "nationalist" Trump and how much do those overlap? How many evangelicals actually go to churches where the mix of black and white people are similar to their community. Black and white churches are some of the most segregated places in world. If you want to learn something about Christ and Christianity...unfortunately you should stay pretty far away from most American "Christians." You will learn some bullshit like prosperity gospel or how it is okay to deny communion to a politician who is doesn't believe the state has a role in regulating women's bodies based on science.
  3. Hey, don't worry about justifying it to yourself. As you can see this is just a complete farce and the hypocrites in the religious right will just move the goal posts when it is politically convenient anyway. Life begins at conception....until that gets politically inconvenient for us when we try to ban IVF...then flush those embryos!
  4. Study: Abortion Views Closely Tied to Views on Race, Religion | NC State News (ncsu.edu) In other words, the researchers found that scoring highly on racial resentment is strongly associated with believing that abortion should be illegal. By the same token, people who had low scores on racial resentment were much less likely to believe abortion should be illegal. Racial resentment is a well-established, standardized scale that is used to measure attitudes toward Black people in the United States. The higher the score on the racial resentment scale, the less an individual believes in systemic racism and the legacy of slavery.
  5. There are also a significant number of black southerners. But how much representation do they get? They are dominated, gerrymandered, and marginalized and all their electoral votes and most of their congressional delegation support white supremacists. Furthermore, many black evangelicals do not take adhere to this newly created litmus test created for culture ware purposes.
  6. Christian Nationalism is just white supremacy by another name. The reason so many people love Trumpist ideas is because a certain segment of the population, especially those sympathetic to the old south, think that white protestants should dominate minorities. This can no longer be enforced using racial terms in polite company so they invent these new litmus tests and try to define who is "Christian" using their made up tests. "Evangelical" is a very handy stand in for "whites" so if they can dominate in this regard, it is essentially the same as holding up the old social order. At the end of the day, it is completely the opposite of our founding principles to make laws based on religion. We make laws on a universal morality that transcends some narrow religious view. This is why abortion should be a matter of personal conscious. If you don't want to have to wear a burka based on some bullshit religious view, you should respect other people who don't want to live under you strange views. Feel free to tell people the immorality of getting an abortion or wearing short skirts...but you cannot use the force of government to enforce your religion on the country.
  7. Well until about 1980 evangelicals and protestants were A-OKay with abortion. This whole "life begins at conception" nonsense was mostly created as a culture war wedge issue by Jerry Falwell and those people who wanted to elect Republicans around 1980. This is more about politics than about religion or morality. I will not have a bunch of people who do some evil, hateful, unChristlike, segregationist stuff who support a twice impeached, lying, adulterer, wanna be dictator judge me! Until 1978 Mormons taught that black people were an inferior race until they had some kind of "revelation" to completely change their previous racist policies. So excuse me for not falling all over myself quaking in my boots listening to charlatans who are making this stuff up as they go to try to get people like Donald Trump elected. At least Catholics have been consistent on this matter. I guess, I don't find a lot of faith in invented religion and religious beliefs that aren't even as old as those spewing them. Hell by that measure, the beliefs of the church of scientology are more credible and long lasting than the fungible "beliefs" espoused by some of these hypocrites. How Evangelicals Decided That Life Begins at Conception | HuffPost Religion The Real Origins of the Religious Right - POLITICO Magazine In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools. So much for the new abolitionism. When the 'Biblical View' for Evangelicals Was That Life Begins at Birth (rewirenewsgroup.com) In case the authors had left any confusion as to “when life begins,” one of the symposium participants clarified in an accompanying issue of Christianity Today: A 1967 issue of the evangelical magazine Christian Life went even further, castigating Catholics for their non-biblical stance:
  8. Okay, convert.... Let's imagine we are at a men's state prison with inmates serving for decades. What do you think the percentage of men in there who get their crank yanked or do some other "gay shit" with another man may be? How many of those men do you think would "identify" as LGBTQ to a pollster or even to themselves? I am guessing those percentages are pretty different. So the question becomes, what is more important? What you "identify" as or what you actually do??? With society, pornography, etc., I can see why young women would get the impression that society is giving them the "I ain't mad at cha" wink for they "identifying" as bisexual. They can try that coat on for a few years before they have a serious relationship, kids, bills, responsibilities, etc. Men don't get this same freedom to just "try on" being bi or gay to see how it fits. Which is why you probably have close to zero % of inmates "identifying" as gay or bisexual even as they get their wankers stroked by other men. A man better be damn sure before he comes out as any one of the above because there is no putting that genie back in the bottle from society. Can you imagine a straight woman excitedly telling her friends, "My man used to be Gay/Bi in college." and having them respond, "....that's hot!!" They would think she was either crazy or pitiful.
  9. That is what my gay friend always used to whisper in my ear. Not today my friend!
  10. Who cares what Hamas thinks? Israel has the unilateral power to make a two-state solution a reality...Hamas does not. Israel could declare it so tomorrow. They could say, "you stay on your side of the line and we will do the same." But many Israelis actually don't want that...they want to encroach inch by inch to take more territory. They don't respect the border either! Israel could have had a plan to install an Arab government to govern Gaza but had no solution in place. Most of the authoritarian governments hate Hamas just as much if not more than the Israelis. Israel has killed far more women and children than they lost to the terrorist attack...just as Hamas wanted. Now they have a bunch of pissed off little orphans to turn into suicide bombers. Both Hamas and the Israelis could give a shit about the innocent people in that open air prison.
  11. I am certainly oversimplifying but I think the entire world has pretty much saying for a long time....ISRAELS NEEDS TO STAY THE HELL OUT OF THE WEST BANK AND GAZA! The USA has been looking the other way and enabling Israeli bad behavior for a long time culminating in Trump's pandering.
  12. Bibi and his ilk think that continued settlement and pushing out of Palestinians from their territory is a good idea. They reject a two-state solution. MAGAs and religious fundamentalists love Bibi's politics and his racist policies so that is why they like him. Many Jews around the world do not agree with this whole perpetual war and trying to usurp land and Bibi is the poster child for this. Bibi wants to stay in charge to avoid getting voted out. Bibi's government and policies caused Hamas to gain power and the Israelis were asleep at the switch during the invasion. That is all...it isn't more complicated than that.
  13. Huh? Now you are putting words in Sanders and Schumer's mouths? How can you justify your comments? Obama's 1967 borders seems to be the most reasonable for everyone. Those fundamentalist right-wing religious fanatics on all sides 3 sides are the problem.
  14. For those who think Jews are a monolith international cabal all coordinating to achieve some evil shared goal. We have the Jewish Senate Majority Leader: Schumer calls for new election in Israel and sharply criticizes Netanyahu | CNN Politics And the Jewish popular former presidential candidate and senator: Sen. Bernie Sanders: "No more money to Netanyahu's war machine to kill Palestinian children" - CBS News It looks like these Senators are very capable of putting America and Human Rights before Israel, its right-wing leader, and religion.
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