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Warn your shipmates about a virus and you're called stupid. Raise a concern about hospital supplies and you're belittled. Protect a whistle blower and you get fired.
texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)Respected. Now it is politicized by Fox and right wing media as alarmist and radical.
DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)the power that the hateful bible thumpers are having on our nation........
Another thing to look at for a perspective, is how each religious group feels about ALL OTHER religions.
I love asking a Lutheran for example, how they view the catholics or jewish.......
WASF
pazzyanne
(6,518 posts)As a practicing Lutheran for 70 years, I have never heard any fellow Lutherans dissing other religious groups. That is my personal experiences.
Ahpook
(2,747 posts)I grew up Lutheran, but do not participate anymore. In my time I never heard any disparaging remarks about anyone or anything.
Quite the opposite actually
CountMyVote4Reality
(209 posts)I agree.
ornotna
(10,763 posts)Two different synods. I can't recall anyone ever dissing any other religions.
BadgerMom
(2,766 posts)Same-same.
DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)stopdiggin
(11,095 posts)(socially) in some synods .. but slamming other religious groups? Nope. Not that I ever saw.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)Chainfire
(17,308 posts)I would also add that professionals are ignored and "gut feelings" are accepted. Lies are accepted as normal. Ignorance is celebrated and education is maligned. Churches have become political country clubs and self professed Christians are the most mean spirited people in our society. Military heroes are fired and draft dodgers command the armed services.
We have gone down the rabbit hole of insatiable greed to an upside down world.
I am a veteran who was proud to serve, but the America I loved has gone; we have to find a way to retrieve it.
Deep State Gnostic
(64 posts)Time after time I sit and I wait for your call
I know I'm a fool but why can I say
Whatever the price I'll pay for you,
Madame Blue
Once long ago, a word from your lips and the world turned around
But somehow you've changed, you're so far away
I long for the past and dream of the days with you,
Madame Blue
Suite Madame Blue, gaze in your looking glass
You're not a child anymore
Suite Madame Blue, the future is all but past
Dressed in your jewels, you made your own rules
You conquered the world and more, heaven's door
Oh
America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America
America, America, America, America
Red white and blue, gaze in your looking glass
You're not a child anymore
Red, white, and blue, the future is all but past
So lift up your heart, make a new start
And lead us away from here
MasonDreams
(756 posts)We must know that we know, and, centered in that knowledge, lift up our hearts.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
Thanks, I am once again shielded from the Sparks of the tempest
Divine slack now dissolves in my bloodstream, please tell me more Elaine Pagels about this man named Thomas.
Deep State Gnostic
(64 posts)what are you going to do about it? We still have choices. I am going to fight. I am not giving up.
BadgerMom
(2,766 posts)KT2000
(20,544 posts)from government positions almost daily.
Increasing population of stupid people who think elections are a big joke.
Eko
(7,170 posts)What I said last night.
"They are breakers and they are breaking us. It wasn't Dump who did this. It was the normal right wing friend, co-worker and acquaintance that did this. They gave him his power and now he is using that to show how the government, our government is useless. To prove that point he is willing to let tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands or even millions die. That is what our right wing normal person will even say when this is over. Its proof for them that the government cant save us only private companies can. For a price of course. The fact that that price is easier to pay for those that have held power for so long, those that want to amend the "we" is not a coincidence. Its the point. Its far past the time for us to realize that they are breakers and to act accordingly." https://democraticunderground.com/100213239970
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)There is nothing wrong with government that getting Republicans out of it can't fix.
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The Sparrow
(16 posts)we are American strong
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Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Beartracks
(12,761 posts)... you cannot escape responsibility in a democracy. It's impossible. Non-votes are just as responsible for election results as are votes. A non-vote is like a "passive" vote, but it pulls a lever just as surely as does a vote.
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stopdiggin
(11,095 posts)won't the Democrats finally realize that they have to pay attention?
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VWolf
(3,944 posts)"Bad leaders get elected by people who don't vote"
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Get convicted of a war crime and actually go to prison - Trump pardons/releases you.
Former US Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance
the_sly_pig
(740 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)Eddie Gallagher pardoned after being found guilty by Navy court.
Now a popular Captain is fired for trying to protect his crew?
Morale has to be great in the Navy now!
Heck of a job, Trumpie!
vapor2
(1,215 posts)(Gallagher) the president will defend you. WTF is wrong with this picture?
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)with about 36% of the vote in 1932. It was still Germany, it had Octoberfest, people still worked, had pets raised families, but it was all different. We've lost this country. It's still America, but it's different. We will still have the super bowl, American idol, uber wealthy, but our country is no longer a democratic America. Keep safe. Do what you can. Put up a good fight. Per Mark Twain; 'History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes'.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)jayschool2013
(2,309 posts)Christian zealots and libertarian "philosophy" have made the U.S. ungovernable.
When Republicans are in charge, they cater to the crazy exemplified by Christianists and libertarians to the point where they make the government bankrupt, weak, ineffectual and corrupt.
When Democrats are in charge, the aforementioned groups pitch such a fit that little of consequence can happen. Something as middle-of-the-road as Obamacare becomes some sign of "tyranny" to them, and they entrench themselves further into their nutty fantasy worlds of Christian republics and anarchy.
We are ungovernable, and it makes me sad.
Celerity
(42,666 posts)jayschool2013
(2,309 posts)And thank you.
ancianita
(35,813 posts)dlk
(11,435 posts)Blue Owl
(49,918 posts)Loge23
(3,922 posts)We can rage on about it here and on other SM, but the facts are the facts: We have a criminal enterprise as an administration and a sizable portion of the electorate are their dupes.