Huge GOP meeting with Evangelicals in TX
October 19, 2015 at 12:28 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2015 at 12:29 pm by drfuzzy.)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-candidat...-in-texas/
On CBS news. Cruz, Carson, Santorum, Huckabee, Bush, & Fiorina just tried to woo an enormous crowd of Evangelicals in Plano, TX.
The battle cry I heard on NPR was "we must take back our country!"
American Atheists may brush this off as a small group of crazies, but Pew Research has the number of American Evangelical Protestants as 25% of the population. That's a dangerous political group, folks. Yes, Atheist/Unaffiliated is the fastest growing "religious" group in the county (yes!!!) at 22% - - but we're a bunch of loners. We aren't organized. We don't meet every week to rant and rave about our (actually and truthfully) persecuted state and to discuss elections.
Do rallies like the one in Plano give anyone else the willies? I was raised by these folks, people. This movement literally gives me goosebumps. This is group insanity in action. They are committed to their delusions in a very frightening way. These people pray for a theocracy every week. For a while, they were content to coast, secure that they were the dominant religion and that Jeebus was coming back to take over the USA very soon. But now they are losing power, and they are scared. Now they want to take control. They are dangerous.
What does everyone think? Do atheists need to be more political? Do we need to push back against this movement that truly wants their religion to take over the government? If so, how do we do it?
On CBS news. Cruz, Carson, Santorum, Huckabee, Bush, & Fiorina just tried to woo an enormous crowd of Evangelicals in Plano, TX.
The battle cry I heard on NPR was "we must take back our country!"
American Atheists may brush this off as a small group of crazies, but Pew Research has the number of American Evangelical Protestants as 25% of the population. That's a dangerous political group, folks. Yes, Atheist/Unaffiliated is the fastest growing "religious" group in the county (yes!!!) at 22% - - but we're a bunch of loners. We aren't organized. We don't meet every week to rant and rave about our (actually and truthfully) persecuted state and to discuss elections.
Do rallies like the one in Plano give anyone else the willies? I was raised by these folks, people. This movement literally gives me goosebumps. This is group insanity in action. They are committed to their delusions in a very frightening way. These people pray for a theocracy every week. For a while, they were content to coast, secure that they were the dominant religion and that Jeebus was coming back to take over the USA very soon. But now they are losing power, and they are scared. Now they want to take control. They are dangerous.
What does everyone think? Do atheists need to be more political? Do we need to push back against this movement that truly wants their religion to take over the government? If so, how do we do it?
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
