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Showing Original Post only (View all)The next President needs to be an atheist [View all]
Let's be honest, self-entitled and self-righteous religious conservatives are at the core of civil unrest and political dissent in this country. These Dominionist are the common thread among the throngs of racist, sexist, xenophobic, nationalistic, militant, science denying, imperialist, corporate raiders that elected Trump and have had a strangle on the GOP for several decades. The "Southern Strategy" and marriages of convenience that the Republicans have exploited to remain relevant and powerful for the last half century have finally come home to roost...They finally have all three branches of government, but they are subject to and hamstrung by an irrational, superstitious, and rabidly stubborn base that has so deeply ingrained their theology with conservative policy that the two are now virtually indistinguishable.
How many politicians, from both parties, give lip service to their "christian" faith because they fear the judgement, wrath and venom of these so called "moral" people? Every politician that knowingly plays this fiddle only continues to let these ignorant superstitions define the parameters of not just national policy, but the very discussion of our national policy. We need national and presidential candidates who are unashamed to say they don't believe, if indeed they don't. Do you really think Pete Stark is the ONLY member of congress who doesn't believe in god? I would wager well over half of them don't, but will never say so out of fear that they'll incur the wrath of the intolerant fundamentalist.
I am not advocating for the abolishing or banishing of religion (although I do feel it's time that we, as a species, move on from superstition and embrace the full applications and implications of our sciences), but rather that we as a populace need to start standing up to these people. They truly think they have the divinely sanctioned moral authority to judge and police the rest of us, and we have allowed them to do so for far too long. Until we start putting people in office and in positions of cultural authority that openly challenge their bronze age belief system and values, we will keep having this fight to finally leave the middle ages behind and embrace humanities bright future. They need to be shown that we do not take them seriously, they do not represent all of us, and we will no longer let them constrain our species with their narrow view of reality. No more lip service. Stop living in fear of admitting you don't believe in mystical sky fathers either.