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RE: Why do far right Christian-Conservatives want to put Jesus in schools
February 8, 2017 at 11:42 am
The short answer is, if you want an adult to believe in magic you have to teach a kid that magic is real and wait a few years for that kid to become an adult. That's how it works.
Christians see a disturbing trend. Religion is diminishing in America. Having an insatiable need to feel persecuted they see this as... Anyone? Anyone? Persecution, that's right. You don't have to go back in time very far to see absolutely ludicrous examples of this way of thinking. Right now it's, "What do you mean I can't force YOUR kid to participate in MY religious magic rituals! You're persecuting Christians!" Not all that long ago it was, "What do you mean I can't put on a white hood and hang a black man? You're persecuting whites!" Not that I am comparing the two, to clarify. There is certainly no literal comparison to be made here. The latter example is just the easiest one I could think of where, today, we can easily see how ridiculous the whining was. Today we can obviously see that it was actually an end to persecution. In the time it didn't feel like that to bigoted assholes who saw a portion of the populous as, let's face it, not quite human enough to be deserving of the same rights. And that's essentially what is happening now. Those who had power they never should have had are losing it and, to their tiny minds, it feels like persecution when they are forced to stop subjecting others to their whims.
And, of course, there is no end to the justifications they can make for why they should be allowed to continue their subjugation of anyone not like them. There are earthquakes now! We never had those before! God is PISSED! And I saw on the news the other day, a guy got murdered! For DRUGS! I never heard of any such shit in the '50s, when everyone was Christian! They idealize a point in the past, forget that bad things happened then too and form the unshakeable and unsupported belief that if they could just change this one thing back to the way they believe it was then all the world's woes will disappear. They form this fantasy in their heads to support their belief that it is not just their right, but their duty to subjugate those they dislike.
The truth is that they like the power to force the beliefs others disagree with onto those who disagree with them. It makes them feel powerful, strong and right. Losing that power feels like people are saying, "Your beliefs are not right". We all know how many believers take that. They fly into a rage and attack in any way they can. That's what this is. It's bitching and whining and kicking and screaming. It's also utterly pointless. The bitch will never get what she wants. Those days are over. And most people, especially Christians, don't even realize that it was religious organizations more than atheists who got prayer and Bible reading removed from schools in the first place. In those two cases combined there was exactly ONE atheist represented, as I recall. The rest of the plaintiffs were religious organizations who wanted it gone. They didn't want their kids being taught someone else's religion. I don't remember whether it was prayer or Bible reading, but one of those cases was brought entirely by religious organizations. In one of those cases not one atheist was involved. In the other case the atheist was just the most famous plaintiff; the one most easily vilified. The rest were, again, religious organizations.
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