Quote for the day -- culture war
-- Trumpist AG William Barr
Yes, unlike in the days when "religion and traditional values" were in power. Back then, they never used things like popular culture and entertainment against us. They just used torture and burning at the stake. Don't talk to me about "organized destruction". I long ago lost all patience with these people's bitching about how persecuted they are because they can no longer force everybody else to conform to their taboos.
posted by Infidel753 at 1:02 PM
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"...have marshaled all the force of mass communications..."
Just who the hell does he think owns most of the media in the US?
and this SOB is spouting this crap in his official capacity. This country is insane.
HA! Well said. Barr seems to have forgotten that pesky little factoid about this not being a theocracy. I betcha most of those blowhards who go on about their Christian values wouldn't know the "right thing" if they tripped over it. I mean, they think this whole impeachment thing is "unconstitutional." Just because it's specifically addressed IN the constitution evidently escaped their notice.
Have a super weekend.
I'd like to ask Barr where was this religious influence to our better angels when Christian KKKers were torturing and murdering their fellow Christians, African-Americans in the South? How did the religous "better angels" of the "good Germans" deal with the Nazis as they sent Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals to the ovens? And what about the very religious men who flew planes into the Twin Towers? Barr is a Dominionist who would like to see America become a theocracy. Religion doesn't make people moral. Take a look at the Christians who support Trump for proof of this.
I find this administrations use of religion repugnant. I find the fact that religion keeps backing them as telling. Telling in the sense, that its whole purpose is about control and power, not values, not love, not morals, and especially not ethics. Religions purpose is to keep itself existing, the rest is just bullshit.
Exactly! Well said!
Mike: They're owned by secular corporations, which have generally not been friendly to the God-hates-fags crowd. It's secular vs. fundamentalist which is the operative distinction here.
Professor: Why should he worry about trashing the First Amendment when his boss has already shitted all over the rest of the constitution?
Susan: It's the same problem with both theocracy and impeachment -- they "interpret" the constitution to mean whatever they believe it should mean. It's very dangerous having such people in power.
Shaw: Genocide, torture, war, slavery, and murder are no biggie -- in the Bible, God actually orders his people to do all those things pretty regularly, so they can't be immoral. It's only gays, atheists, and uppity women that are really evil.
Lady M: Religion is a mental parasite which perpetuates itself by controlling human brains and trying to spread itself to new brains. I've been convinced of that for years.
Debra: Thanks!
Religion is mass delusion. Along with its companion authoritarianism, it has been the greatest impediment to human social progress and justice. They constitute the con in con-servatism.
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