Can someone please explain how this is any different from a county imposing Sharia law‽ Pretty sure the right is vehemently against that occuring. Why are their morals different, in the end it's trying to control through religion.
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It's exactly the same. But because it's their god it's somehow different, but it's not.
Its the same God, though, isn't it? Just their book?
From my understanding of the various religions and offshoots, yes, it is in theory the same God. They also feature the same saints and holy figures across the 3 big ones though in the Quran Jesus is a saint or similar but not our savior or the son of God and God in the same package, etc.
Have you seen the south Park multiparter about the atheist otters?
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Well you see, Sharia Law is imposed by brown people, so God hates it. Jesus was white, American, and a registered Republican, so God loves the brand of extremist Christian theocracy the GOP will bring upon us.
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Don't forget 2A and supply side
Nice that people are starting to notice, I suppose.
Better late to the party than a no show I suppose.
When was the last time people were in doubt about that? Conservatives have been trying to pass laws that affect everyone based on their confused religious moralism for decades. Things like “blue laws” (banning sales of alcohol on Sunday) are connected to Christians trying to impose their religious ideas on people. Or the idea that someone’s testimony or oath can’t be believed if not sworn on a bible.
Did you ever see that one politician who swore up and down that America is a Christian nation because you swear into office on the Bible? Complete deer in headlights look when the interviewer explained that the Bible was an option, not a requirement.
Media keeps telling me how moderate Haley is.
And always trying to rationalize it as not religious. Fucking maddening.
The people that want a theocracy want it based on their religion and their interpretation of that religion. This way they can present what they want as what god wants and that gives them complete control over you since you have to obey god.
Hail Satan!
They should be careful what they wish for. There are estimated to be at least 200 Christian Denominations in the USA and 45,000 globally. If they ever succeeded in making this nation a theocracy, it would be a bloodbath in under a week as each denomination tries to make all the others adhere to their own interpretations.
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There was a speaker at CPAC who just said that they’re trying to make the US a Christian nation by force, even if it means abandoning democracy.
Everything someone talks a about a Christian nations, all I can think of is Emo Philips' joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78
Can I get a link to this video?
Talibangelicals
In a concurring opinion in last week’s Alabama supreme court decision, Alabama’s chief justice, Tom Parker, invoked the prophet Jeremiah, Genesis and the writings of 16th- and 17th-century theologians. “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God,” he wrote. “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”
Before joining the court, Parker was a close aide and ally of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court who was twice removed from the job – first for dismissing a federal court order to remove an enormous granite monument of the Ten Commandments he had installed in the state judicial building, and then for ordering state judges to defy the US supreme court’s decision affirming gay marriage.
Excuse me wtf
How do they square that with supporting the death penalty?
Dogmatic ideology holding contradictory positions is a feature, not a bug. Break down whatever instincts for logic might exist, and people will believe anything.
Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism
frozen embryos
chilling example
Nice.
Nah, no one could’ve seen it coming. There’s nothing we can do it, it’s caught everyone completely off guard.
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They don't just want a theocracy; they're well on their way to making it happen.
They want a dictatorship. They are just using theocracy as a stepping stone.
American Taliban, or a fascist theocracy. They believe that inequality based on some mythological identity is not just acceptable but morally correct.
The Republican party ~~wants to turn~~ is actively turning America.into a theocracy
They're using religion as their path to dictatorship. Really only Catholics were in open opposition to abortion until conservatives made it an evangelical talking point. They found a way to control women and then found the audience to market it to. Now they caught that car and have to find another target for their pack of dogs.
Always has been.
Duh
Republicans also want to bring back 19th century Company Towns. Then, they will fill them with obedient workers, who they can pay as little as they want and abuse as much as they like.
This is why they overturned Roe vs Wade and they're going after contraception next. They need citizen's to breed.
They need citizen's what to breed?
Their apostrophes!
Everything is always doom and gloom and fire and brimstone with Republicans. Apparently that appeals to a lot of people.
Don't worry, I'm sure that theocracy will merely be a road bump to a leftist Utopia.
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