Nothing tells me someone has a very specific bone to pick more than jumping to blaming the Republicans on Christianity. It's putting the cart before the horse, and taking too much of what they say at face value. Remembering, of course, they're all pathological liars.
It's kind of depressing to know even some people on the left haven't figured out yet who these fuckers actually are. Religion is not at their core, nor is conservativism, not even nationalism. Those are all just addons.
It's pure, uncut selfishness, greed, and hate. All other belief systems are erected on top of that as needed, and often interchangeably.
This is mostly true. What major bills did Republicans pass under Trump? Tax cuts for the rich. It's always tax cuts for the rich. That's their religion.
It is a core feature of most religions that
There are hidden forces at work in the world
The workings of these hidden forces are more important than the processes we can see, and follow a grand plan
This belief is strikingly similar to conspiratorial worldviews, and the likelihood of subscribing to QAnon and other conspiracy theories rises substantially with increasing religiosity.
They're not the same thing, but they are definitely related
Nothing tells me someone has a very specific bone to pick more than jumping to blaming the Republicans on Christianity. It's putting the cart before the horse, and taking too much of what they say at face value. Remembering, of course, they're all pathological liars.
It's kind of depressing to know even some people on the left haven't figured out yet who these fuckers actually are. Religion is not at their core, nor is conservativism, not even nationalism. Those are all just addons.
It's pure, uncut selfishness, greed, and hate. All other belief systems are erected on top of that as needed, and often interchangeably.
This is mostly true. What major bills did Republicans pass under Trump? Tax cuts for the rich. It's always tax cuts for the rich. That's their religion.
It is a core feature of most religions that
There are hidden forces at work in the world
The workings of these hidden forces are more important than the processes we can see, and follow a grand plan
This belief is strikingly similar to conspiratorial worldviews, and the likelihood of subscribing to QAnon and other conspiracy theories rises substantially with increasing religiosity.
They're not the same thing, but they are definitely related