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ihaveaquestion

(4,518 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 12:04 PM Apr 2024

How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity - SOME MORE NEWS



Apr 24, 2024
Hi. Today we're looking at how the Religious Right became the Religious Right, and wonder if there's a space in leftism for Christianity.
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How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity - SOME MORE NEWS (Original Post) ihaveaquestion Apr 2024 OP
The Great Deceiver (R) BoRaGard Apr 2024 #1
Fundamentalists of any religion are easy marks. LiberalLovinLug Apr 2024 #2

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
1. The Great Deceiver (R)
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 12:14 PM
Apr 2024

The GOP opened its arms to "suckers and losers" who were ripe marks for a
amoral draft-dodging casino hustler who is in hock and meek servitude
to the "Godless Evil Russian Empire*."



* per R. Reagan

LiberalLovinLug

(14,613 posts)
2. Fundamentalists of any religion are easy marks.
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 02:55 PM
Apr 2024

They already have been conditioned to be able to suspend disbelief. Some since childhood. I know because I was one of those children. It was perfectly normal for me to go to school during the week and learn about math, geography, science...topics where logic and evidence and facts are requirements. Then attend Sunday School and learn how 3 men survived being burned alive, or in a cave with hungry lions. How Jesus walked on water, fed thousands with one basket of fish, and many other miracles that defy everything I learned during the week.

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