Religious Acceptance, Intolerance, and Political Influence

Of course, the liberals couldn’t bring her down, so they let the Christian xenophobic homophobic anti-atheists do the job. Republican Christians are so much better at playing the role of misogynists; second only to Muslim fundamentalists.

Santorum: Christian fundamentalist, Washington insider, behind the scenes puppet master, and all around boor.

Huntsman: virtually invisible.

Ron Paul gets it right sometimes. If he ran as an independent I would have to consider him a viable candidate. One of the reasons he isn’t taken seriously is that he falls short of admitting his role in government violence and corruption, and that is laughable.

With Ron Paul, you have a two time loser (once as a Libertarian, then as a Republican) who was educated in substandard southern right-wing universities (we’re talking rebel-flag waving throwbacks), who was inspired by Ayn Rand (who was inspired by serial killers, child killers, and thieves), who openly solicited campaign money from aryan nation groups, only to have his press people deny it after he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

And he wants to be your President.

He was probably right on his stance against our wars. He is probably right on a lot of issues, but his ideologies are muddied by his unprofessional and uneducated views on abortion and reproductive rights, his fairy-tale answers for every complicated issue, and his willingnes to turn his back on his own contribution to violence in the world.

Mitt Romney caught flack for being a Mormon…not for the way he buys and sells and slices and dices and butchers and cannibalizes American businesses, but for his Religion…

…which really means nothing to any of the pimps who are running on the right.

So, what we are left with is the most obvious thing that the author has not addressed: pack mentality.

A religion is a belief system, and religion can be practiced in many ways; but when that religious practice is taken public and complicated by societal issues and corporate dollars, it becomes less personal and more like an initiation into a street gang.

Christians, Muslims, Mormans, Scientologists, Satanists, Santerians, Zionists, when they group together to become part of the hive mind, they are no better than gangsters; they are weak, broken people who have no personal connection to their own faith.

They have to seek validation in the eyes of other weak people.

They have to tear someone else down to justify their own ridiculous beliefs, and recently we have seen atheists and gays joining in that mindset. We must first be responsible for our own actions and take steps to repair the damage that we have done; we must affect change without becoming a wolf pack.

Your god may forgive your trespasses, but you still have to clean your own mess.