RE: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the forum....
June 20, 2019 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2019 at 10:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It may not be possible for there to be a peace and understanding when religious extremists leverage their influence to exert unrepresentative control of government over manufactured controversies...and even if it were, why wouldn't anyone want that? They've made their ask, they've set their price for that peace and understanding, but why should anyone pay it?
Perhaps you should be pissed at your brothers in faith for doing this, not at anti-religious folks pointing out how fucked up it is or how inextricably linked to their religion?
Your massive caveat in defense of what I can only assume you intend for us to take as the good and polite and decent christians you know was only that they wouldn't have supported it -if- it was just the issue...if......but, apparently, whatever other motivator they have is worth it to them, to trade this for that. I want food and water to be officially deemed a basic human right in our constitution. I'm not willing to put up with fucking concentration camps to get it, lol. I'm not going to trade in ridiculous lies and conspiracy theories in order to drum up support for what I want. There is nothing about this issue from the religious extremists perspective and involvement that isn't completely and utterly disgusting.
This has been the constant excuse, though, for every horrid thing any trumpist has traded for their pet projects since before the man was elected - and for every person looking to excuse those trumpists before or after the fact. There is principle, and there is the pretext of principle as an excuse for cruelty. You tell me, which one are we looking at here...and are you really going to go to bat for them if it's the second..or imply that there's something wrong with being frustrated by infuriating and duplicitous shit?
Your boys are rotten. That you can't accept their own assessment for why this is, or the informed recognition of that assessment from an outside party is no one else's issue but your own.
Perhaps you should be pissed at your brothers in faith for doing this, not at anti-religious folks pointing out how fucked up it is or how inextricably linked to their religion?
Your massive caveat in defense of what I can only assume you intend for us to take as the good and polite and decent christians you know was only that they wouldn't have supported it -if- it was just the issue...if......but, apparently, whatever other motivator they have is worth it to them, to trade this for that. I want food and water to be officially deemed a basic human right in our constitution. I'm not willing to put up with fucking concentration camps to get it, lol. I'm not going to trade in ridiculous lies and conspiracy theories in order to drum up support for what I want. There is nothing about this issue from the religious extremists perspective and involvement that isn't completely and utterly disgusting.
This has been the constant excuse, though, for every horrid thing any trumpist has traded for their pet projects since before the man was elected - and for every person looking to excuse those trumpists before or after the fact. There is principle, and there is the pretext of principle as an excuse for cruelty. You tell me, which one are we looking at here...and are you really going to go to bat for them if it's the second..or imply that there's something wrong with being frustrated by infuriating and duplicitous shit?
Your boys are rotten. That you can't accept their own assessment for why this is, or the informed recognition of that assessment from an outside party is no one else's issue but your own.
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