AProudLefty (09-26-2021), christiefan915 (09-29-2021), Frank Apisa (09-27-2021), Hoosier Daddy (09-26-2021), PoliTalker (09-27-2021), ThatOwlWoman (09-26-2021)
Many of us, though, aren’t Christian, and don’t want to try to be Christian. Just to take one example: Jewish people’s experience of Christian morality has not been universally uplifting, to say the least.
Some will argue that antisemitism is not real Christianity. But you can’t just disavow a couple of thousands years of persecution and hate. And if Christianity equals virtue, where does that leave Jewish people — or Muslims, or atheists, or Buddhists, for that matter?
Of course there are good Christians, as there are good people of every faith, and of no faith. But one of the hallmarks of immoral forms of Christianity is a belief that Christianity can only be good — and that the good can only be Christian.
This is the logic of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the rabidly Trumpist politics she represents. Sociologist Philip Gorski argued in a 2019 article that evangelical white Christians loved Trump not despite his violent and scabrous language, but precisely because he told them they were better than everyone else. Evangelicals, Gorski said, responded to “Trump’s racialized, apocalyptic, and blood-drenched rhetoric.” That rhetoric harkened back to the Christian language deployed to justify slavery and Native American genocide.
Trump told white evangelical Christians that they had a right and a duty to impose their morality, through force, on others. Marjorie Taylor Greene is following through on a tradition of dispossession and cruelty when she insults abortion supporters or tries to seize control of people’s bodies in the name of a higher morality.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...wn-ncna1280110
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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AProudLefty (09-26-2021), christiefan915 (09-29-2021), Frank Apisa (09-27-2021), Hoosier Daddy (09-26-2021), PoliTalker (09-27-2021), ThatOwlWoman (09-26-2021)
Christianity is a powerful and important tradition in the U.S.; it shouldn’t just be left to the Greene's and the Trump's. But part of contesting their hold on Christianity is refusing to acquiesce to Christian supremacy. It means acknowledging non-Christians in discussions of America, and in discussions of goodness.
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
Doc Dutch (09-26-2021), PoliTalker (09-27-2021), WinterBorn (09-27-2021)
Religious Quacks. Bad for Society. They all want to impose 'God's Law' on the rest of us. (Can you imagine a 'No Bacon' Law? ... what IDIOTS!)
PoliTalker (09-27-2021), Trumpet (09-26-2021)
Trump said she is very smart this weekend. https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-ta...e-trump-smart/ I guess compared to him it is possible.
Phantasmal (09-29-2021), PoliTalker (09-27-2021)
Some of the Religious Quacks claim: "We are the Chosen People". This sounds familiar ... and dangerous.
PoliTalker (09-27-2021), Trumpet (09-26-2021)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
AProudLefty (09-26-2021), Trumpet (09-26-2021)
She's an okay looking woman with a very good set of feet. I'd have a one night stand with her then I would throw her out like a trash that is her the next morning.
AProudLefty (09-26-2021), Guno צְבִי (09-26-2021), ThatOwlWoman (09-26-2021)
she looks like a ferret in the face. i guess some people find that attractive.
hopefully you realize that even atheists can believe that killing your children is not a good thing......it's sad when idiots like Dingell decide to attack the religion of their colleagues......
from your link.....
Dingell should be censored by the House.....“You should practice the basic thing you're taught in church: respect your neighbor,” Dingell shouted.
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
AProudLefty (09-26-2021)
anonymoose (09-29-2021), PoliTalker (09-27-2021)
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