"To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the 'TheoBros.' These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again. ...
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Andrewreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy the clue of course being fundamentalist. They follow only the word of whatever book they believe in. Common to all religions are intolerance of nonconformity and heresy although burning at the stake has fallen out of fashion in Christian circles.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
@wdlindsy @michael_w_busch Those who know me know my broken record that “religion” is a red herring, and the things to watch out for are fundamentalism, authoritarianism, and abuse, all of which readily slip in and out of religious clothing — but rarely leave a person. (Dawkins, for example, to my mind, went from religious to anti-religious but never stopped being a fundamentalist.)
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@inthehands @wdlindsy I learn from @rebeccawatson that Richard Dawkins is calling himself a "cultural Christian" now.
As a pretext for sexism, racism, and anti-Muslim bigotry.
The authoritarian pattern is worldwide.
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Michael Buschreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @bartvdpoel I recall the divide right down the middle of some of the Catholic churches I once attended.
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@michael_w_busch @wdlindsy @rebeccawatson
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bennyreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I fear so, too. I wonder how they could be saved so they repent and turn around from their wrong path…
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Gerard van Oel 🍋replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @ericschutte They want to make the USA white for the first time ever, I guess.
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Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
That sounds an awful lot like Vance heading up a weird troop of incels being groomed for entry into the He Man Woman Haters Club. Good luck with that, couch humpers.
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Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Andrew last edited by
@serendip1959 Yes, the clue being fundamentalist. I see much more diversity in the religions of the world — internal diversity, with fundamentalist wings matched by others moving in precisely the opposite direction. I don't think religion can be reduced to an invidious stereotype, if we want to do justice to its rich diversity.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands @michael_w_busch Yes, I totally agree. Keep playing that record, please.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Michael Busch last edited by
@michael_w_busch @bartvdpoel Re: voting for Trump, do you mean? Pretty solid data from the previous two elections indicates that more than half of white Catholics voted for Trump in both elections, but the vote of Hispanic and Black Catholics leaned much more in the direction of the Democratic candidates.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to benny last edited by
@benny I suspect that to experience metanoia — your description perfectly matches that biblical word — we have to be open to recognizing that we can be on the wrong path altogether. Until we entertain that awareness, it's hard to admit that we need to re-chart our course.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Gerard van Oel 🍋 last edited by
@gevoel @ericschutte Well-stated. Or, they want to return the entire nation to the large pockets of it that have little diversity and are overwhelmingly white, as with much of Appalachia.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙 last edited by
@CatHerder Doesn't it, though?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙 last edited by
@CatHerder I think the Republican rule of thumb is that laws apply to them and not to use.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Cat Herder for Harris-Walz 💙 last edited by
@CatHerder It's pretty disgusting. And it's chilling, indeed, that a solid percentage of Americans buy into this vision.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to BassRck5000 last edited by
@BassRck5000 I haven't thought of the Little Rascals in a long time. Thanks for bringing them back to mind.