A few thoughts on the modern theist movement.

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15. There seems to also be a weird ethics in that reasoning too.

For example, "liberal" catholic women using birth control. Clearly this defies doctrine. No consequences for them really, but others are suffering because of that doctrine, but due to the catholic privilege, they too have privilege (as I think it was trotsky who phrased it as "wink and nod&quot . You see the same thing from the "conservatives" -- rally against same-sex marriage in the name of the sanctity of marriage yet they are schtupping a colleague's spouse; still they are christians - forgive, cry, and nevermind.

Now the ethics of this is troubling. They take that same ethics and apply it in other areas. No "handouts" for others while they take subsidies. Torture is bad, but hey, let's look forward and not deal with that whole war criminal stuff. We are still great, because exceptionalism, yay USA.

Rational thinking people operate on evidence, observation, and a certain sense of agreement regarding articulated social contracts and frickin' Constitutions.

In other words - the screw-ed up thinking that results from believing in this contrived crap, of not listening when your core human sense says "this is wrong" - affects us all when those thinkers, those twisters of reality (I belong to A, A requires B, fuck B, I still belong to A he he I'm getting away with something) are making secular laws.

So yeah, I agree, you are right on the mark!!!