WHat we're up against

[Claire Oh Nette]

I saw a movie trailer this afternoon. About the girl who saw the VIrgin Mary in Belgium, maybe? takes place in the early part of the 20th century. Looks good.

a line that struk me: "We'll put our progressive ideas to work to rid the world of religious superstition." (not exact, but general idea)

Progressives expose religious superstition and national myth.
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I've kept politic off my fb page ( I know). As a history teacher, I know HISTORY when it happens. The Trump Treason Capitol Insurrection is going to fall below the Lincoln Assassination and the Civil War, and below Kennedy's assassination, but rank in the end even more momentous that Pearl Harbor or 9/11.

I'm sticking to news reports from Reuters and the AP and not tolerating nonsense memes from the high school graduates I went to school with. I call out the specific fallacy and note when they birdwalk and change the subject with their whataboutery. I ask them, politely, to stay on topic. One long discussion, two attempted, and another, meme thrower have been swatted. They rarely last more than two exchanges, and my comments get likes for being reasoned and thoughtful.

That said: this is what we're up against....

Speak the truth sister!!! But I believe Biden will not be in office a year. He is being used as a puppet to get Harris the Presidency and Nancy Pelosi the Vice Presidency. They know that Biden is losing his mental capabilities and therefore will not be able to complete his term. The Democratic Party is counting on that. XXXXX, do what Jesus told us to do, pray for our enemies and our leaders. In this case our enemies and leaders are one of the same. But when you pray and bless them and if they don’t turn from their wicked ways it will be like pouring hot coals on them. So in the end we will win because Jesus won.

Religion is magical thinking. It's superstitions from the Bronze Age, with Church politics thrown in for good measure. Faith requires the to believe what can not be proven. Doubt is forbidden, and this infects the religious right politicians who refuse to compromise because Jesus hates lukewarm christians. or some such nonsense.

[SheltieLover]

1. Therein lies the key

They are transgenerationally programmed to believe in whatever they are told, without questioning.

And they see these beliefs as extensions of themselves.

Gawd forbid they see the sociopolitical control mechanism, referred to as religion, for what it truly is!

[Laffy Kat]

2. Well said.

[Corgigal]

3. It's just a replay,

of the Hillary is dying, because she felt ill due to heat stress.

I heard this too, Biden is gonna die in a few months...blah, blah.

Rinse and repeat. Russian bots don’t even do novelty anymore.

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. more than repeat of Hillary

This reveals the White Right's biggest fear:
not just having to endure that horrible scandal free, classy, intelligent, competent Black president
(the horror)
but following him up with a woman? Buttery Males! No woman is going to tell those good old boys and the toxic male culture what to do, by gawd.
So, we got the very first white identity politics candidate.

Their greatest fear is the all female ticket, and not just one woman, but two, and one of them Black, telling them what to do.

The patriarchy dies hard.