Huge GOP meeting with Evangelicals in TX

[drfuzzy]

[Angrboda]

I suspect we're in for four years of crazy, whether we like it or not.

[Jenny A]

Yes groups like that give me the willies, and the heebee jeebees too, but so did The Moral Majority, and various other groups. Whether atheists should be more politically active as a group is a complicated question though. Part of what drives extremism is the feeling of being under attack. And I don't want to drive even more extremism. What we are seeing a rise is extreme Christianity because Christianity is on it's way out. But if they actually took control of the country, it could be catastrophic---a sort of American Marxism or Nazism. Dangerous as hell. McCarthyism comes to mind.

[Jenny A]

I suspect we're in for four years of crazy, whether we like it or not.

I agree.  I can't come up with a candidate republican or democrat that I like. And they all lack real experience.

[drfuzzy]

I live in the Bible Belt.  That sounds absolutely horrifying.  Westboro is only a short drive from my house.
BUT - - if it would take only four short years of Evangelicals calling the shots for the rest of the population to rise up in protest - - it might be worth it.   Still, I'm going to call somebody to help me build a bunker TODAY.

[Divinity]

As a Deist it scares the fuck out of me that fucking morons like Mike CuntI'llBe appeal to fucking dipshit evangelicals who think this is a "CHRISTIAN NATION". They want a fucking theocracy, so long as it's their fucking religion.

"Take our Country Back!"

How about going and starting your own fucking country. There you can deny gay people the right to get married, black people the right to vote, and have religious laws. Just so long as the rest of us don't have to fucking live there. Might I suggest Antarctica? You can have President Huckabee, Vice President Jeb, Dictator Trump, Pope Santorum, and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

[Jenny A]

I live in the Bible Belt.  That sounds absolutely horrifying.  Westboro is only a short drive from my house.
BUT - - if it would take only four short years of Evangelicals calling the shots for the rest of the population to rise up in protest - - it might be worth it.   Still, I'm going to call somebody to help me build a bunker TODAY.

Should the shooting start, we'll put you up in the Northwest for a bit.

[drfuzzy]

I live in the Bible Belt.  That sounds absolutely horrifying.  Westboro is only a short drive from my house.
BUT - - if it would take only four short years of Evangelicals calling the shots for the rest of the population to rise up in protest - - it might be worth it.   Still, I'm going to call somebody to help me build a bunker TODAY.

Should the shooting start, we'll put you up in the Northwest for a bit.

Thank JennyA!! The Northwest is known to be relatively sane - and beautiful!

[Jenny A]

Should the shooting start, we'll put you up in the Northwest for a bit.

Thank JennyA!! The Northwest is known to be relatively sane - and beautiful!

It is.  And we have a spare bedroom.

[vorlon13]

No matter how rabid a return America to Jesus government would be, they'd never outlaw any of their special privileges like remarriage after divorce, linsey woolsey duds, letting menstruating women anywhere near a church (and goes double for any woman that might want to say something in a church), or changing the week around so they go back to honoring the Sabbath.