Skeptics will believe or disbelieve what they will. Religion and fake Christianity and such have always been used as weapons against The Other. Pope Gregory has a lot to answer for. As does the Catholic Church itself. But so do today's so-called evangelicals and "Christianists," none of whom have ever given a fig for Christ's teachings,…
Skeptics will believe or disbelieve what they will. Religion and fake Christianity and such have always been used as weapons against The Other. Pope Gregory has a lot to answer for. As does the Catholic Church itself. But so do today's so-called evangelicals and "Christianists," none of whom have ever given a fig for Christ's teachings, as far as I can tell. The Dominionists, which put Trump in the WH (cf Kellyanne Conway, Ted Cruz, others), are the worst as they simply ignore the Bible in aid of their own superiority. (Amy Conan Barrett is also part of some abhorent splinter of a church, maybe Catholic.) "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" was a recurring line in Monty Python. Nobody expected it to hit the GOP as it has and brought what it has wrought in its 21st century iteration.
But despots, dictators, totalitarians, are just the other side of that same coin. Pick your poison. Those who seek to oppress others for their own goals will use whatever force or power is at hand. Religion. Politics. Even probably Capitalism. And any one of them can provide "peace" and "unity" once they have murdered or otherwise silenced all opposition.
Skeptics will believe or disbelieve what they will. Religion and fake Christianity and such have always been used as weapons against The Other. Pope Gregory has a lot to answer for. As does the Catholic Church itself. But so do today's so-called evangelicals and "Christianists," none of whom have ever given a fig for Christ's teachings, as far as I can tell. The Dominionists, which put Trump in the WH (cf Kellyanne Conway, Ted Cruz, others), are the worst as they simply ignore the Bible in aid of their own superiority. (Amy Conan Barrett is also part of some abhorent splinter of a church, maybe Catholic.) "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" was a recurring line in Monty Python. Nobody expected it to hit the GOP as it has and brought what it has wrought in its 21st century iteration.
But despots, dictators, totalitarians, are just the other side of that same coin. Pick your poison. Those who seek to oppress others for their own goals will use whatever force or power is at hand. Religion. Politics. Even probably Capitalism. And any one of them can provide "peace" and "unity" once they have murdered or otherwise silenced all opposition.