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In reply to the discussion: Get it off your chest: current most detested / trite phrase or word.... [View all]Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Hi
I did get your reply obviously.
"...Though I suppose the Jesus folks might argue something about the Jews having killed their saviour, even though, wasn't that necessary for him to be their savior?" Good point!!
Another irony or two, most of the RW fundamentalist Christians are RW pro Israel, including the settlements, though neither the RW nor the Left or center want the US RW fundamentalists Christians' support.
Re: the story about your grandmother. My mom told me that people get religious when they got old because they were afraid they wouldn't go to heaven. She did, and the hypocrisy of it drives me nuts.
You raised another point: have you ever known a racist who wasn't into some sort of fundamentalists religion...Christain, Muslim, Jewish?
While certainly not all religious believers are racists. All or maybe all racists are some sort of religious fundamentalists, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, whatever.
(Feels like I'm back in logic classes.)
I'm trying to spend less time here too. It can be a time sink hole. Obviously, we all need to talk to someone who empathizes with our outrage of what is going on w our country.