The Religion Thread

[grayman]

Schools Chief Who Mandated Bible Study Facing Impeachment

https://meidasnews.com/news/schools-chi ... mpeachment

[President Bush]

Schools Chief Who Mandated Bible Study Facing Impeachment

https://meidasnews.com/news/schools-chi ... mpeachment

He doesn't seem to care, wants SCOTUS to rule on his goal of establishing christianity in public schools.

[grayman]

And another one that thinks the U.S. needs to change her ways

A Christian pastor in Texas claims God does not want women to vote and Americans should be ruled by a religious dictator.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ights.html

[Admin]

And another one that thinks the U.S. needs to change her ways

A Christian pastor in Texas claims God does not want women to vote and Americans should be ruled by a religious dictator.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ights.html

It's funny how we all thought A Handmaid's Tale was fiction, and it's actually a handbook for far-right christianity.

[Meadmaker]

Schools Chief Who Mandated Bible Study Facing Impeachment

https://meidasnews.com/news/schools-chi ... mpeachment

He doesn't seem to care, wants SCOTUS to rule on his goal of establishing christianity in public schools.

I've wondered how things would go down as the Christian majority realizes that, in reality, they aren't a majority anymore. Oh, sure, there are still hundreds of millions of people who would check the "Christian" box while filling out forms, but in terms of what people actually do, they've lost it.

Some of them see the hand of Satan in this, and have decided that God requires them to stand up for Jesus, courts be damned, literally.

But....it's too late. The atheist, or at least agnostic and indifferent, genie is out of the bottle.

I hope.

[arthwollipot]

I agree. In much of the rest of the developed world, religion is an afterthought at best. America is just taking a while to catch up.

[stanky]

in rural america, religion is the discipline of clean church clothes and clean body, once a week.
also as hub of other social activities.
the actual nature of the belief is pretty vague. or flexible.
you can't see it on them in the hardware store, like you could with some religions.

[grayman]

Christo-fascism:




Republican Chair Says Only Christians Should Be Elected to Government

Taylor added, "And everybody is like, 'Then you gotta let Satanists come in, and you gotta let witches come in, and you've gotta let Muslims and Hindus.' No, no, we don't. No, we don't because America is founded on God Almighty, Creator God, Yahweh, Elohim."

"That is what we're founded on, and I don't have to honor your religion. I don't have to give you 'freedom' of religion. Freedom of religion is there for us to worship Jesus. It's not for you to come force anything else upon me," she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... ocialshare

[Admin]

Christo-fascism:

Republican Chair Says Only Christians Should Be Elected to Government

They truly don't understand the whole Jesus thing, do they?

I'm reminded of George HW Bush saying out loud that atheists should not be considered American.

[stanky]

It's a huge barrier in our social ladder.
Atheism in America is like Bokonism...everyone is one, but they pretend to believe in that which is incomprehensible instead, and they call it God. I doubt will ever see an outed atheist in the white house. Jesse Ventura was a governor and an out atheist. I think that's as far as one can go.

Does anyone really think Trump is religious? It's preposterous.

speaking of religiosity, I've taken up urtication. yup. I'm an urticater. I've been one for a week now, only discovered the word today. It's been around for centuries, in most parts of the world.
Urtication is the act of flogging oneself with stinging nettles.

I looked into the compounds one gets in their blood stream from doing this: it's many, and varies from place to place, and includes formic acid, acetylcholine, serotonin (oddly enough) and a host of others; some known as anti-oxidants and anti inflammatory agents.

I've been doing it for the hike and the woods and the state of wonder i can easily enter if allowed...and they say 'awe' is good for health. The sting isn't pure woo...there's real live chemicals on the tiny spikes...and some may provide benefit. Hardly matters. All the stuff they sell for arthritic pain is useless and even harmful.

Today i went deep and flogged my lips with the nettles. (actually, it's short-spike noseburn, but so similar)
anyway, dumb move! instant sting! bad stanky!
surprised me because i'd already flogged my ass and dick and was surprised that i never felt it.
I feel it on the back of my hands, reliably.

anecdote: i can play guitar longer than prior to urtication discipline before hand goes numb.
so, gonna keep doing it. Not joining a group of urticaters neither. I'm solo and already hard core, evidently.

Maybe i'll google "how many people have flogged their dick with stinging nettles?"
(or not)

I might be the Pope of this.