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I Suppose This is "Uncivil"
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I Suppose This is "Uncivil"
Nonetheless, it does ring true!

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/heres-p...ver-story/

Quote:Here’s how the philosophers of selfishness came to use Christianity as their cover story

Quote:The attempts to reconcile the correlation between displays of piety and support for selfish policies get complex on the right, with conservatives often arguing that hating your neighbor at the voting booth doesn’t count because church charities supposedly make up for it. (They don’t.) In reality, the relationship between Christian piety and support for selfish policies is fairly straightforward. It’s not that being Christian makes you conservative. It’s that being conservative makes being a loud and pious Christian extremely attractive.

Quote:Increasingly, the only thing religion has left to justify itself is that it provides cover for people who want to have bigoted, selfish beliefs but want to believe they are good people anyway. As these social trends continue, we can expect the alignment between public piety and grotesquely selfish political beliefs to get worse, not better.
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I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Minimalist - November 24, 2018 at 3:00 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Belacqua - November 24, 2018 at 6:10 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by brewer - November 30, 2018 at 6:38 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Minimalist - November 24, 2018 at 6:19 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Gwaithmir - December 2, 2018 at 8:46 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Dr H - November 30, 2018 at 6:04 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by LastPoet - December 3, 2018 at 12:55 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Brian37 - December 3, 2018 at 1:16 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by LastPoet - December 3, 2018 at 4:20 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Minimalist - November 30, 2018 at 6:41 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by T0 Th3 M4X - December 2, 2018 at 5:48 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Minimalist - December 2, 2018 at 6:43 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by T0 Th3 M4X - December 2, 2018 at 6:58 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by SteelCurtain - December 2, 2018 at 8:25 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Angrboda - December 3, 2018 at 2:45 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Brian37 - December 3, 2018 at 2:58 pm
RE: I Suppose This is "Uncivil" - by Angrboda - December 3, 2018 at 3:04 pm

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