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52% of Democrats identify as Christian. So this post is also politically divisive. Don't you know or care about that fact?
John Fugelsang can eat this guy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
He'll tell you that Democrats, while not perfect, still have party policies on healthcare, social safety nets, immigration, gun safety, women's equality, gay rights, and antiracism that are LIGHT YEARS CLOSER to the teachings of Jesus than any trump-era republican fundamentalists, who are the brazen, junk-wagging opposite of Jesus's actual words.
The ONLY thing wrong with religions across the world are its fundamentalists.
Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they're better than other people. Human hate has been around a lot longer than religion. Religion didn't create hate. Hate found voice inside religion.
It's the intolerance of right wing fundamentalist christians that's driving young people away from religion, and not because the young are controlled by Satan, though the fundamentalists may very well be.
The primary driver of most global conflict, oppression of women, suppression of science, persecution of gay people, and abuse of power is not religion. It is the extreme fundamentalist wings of all the world's religions that enact these harmful dramas for the rest of humanity. The overwhelming majority of progressive, moderate, and even conservative Christians, Jews, and Muslims are getting along just fine, right now, in all corners of the earth-- just trying to make their way through life and leave a better world for their kids.
But then, people of different backgrounds working together, and building families, and businesses, and communities in a drama free way doesn't attract much media attention. But the violent lunatics and bigots are profitable to get the eyeballs and clicks, and so they get the coverage.
We (and you, LO4E) can and should do better on DU than to spread divisive opinions and sweeping judgements about our people.
John Fugelsang can eat this guy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
He'll tell you that Democrats, while not perfect, still have party policies on healthcare, social safety nets, immigration, gun safety, women's equality, gay rights, and antiracism that are LIGHT YEARS CLOSER to the teachings of Jesus than any trump-era republican fundamentalists, who are the brazen, junk-wagging opposite of Jesus's actual words.
The ONLY thing wrong with religions across the world are its fundamentalists.
Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they're better than other people. Human hate has been around a lot longer than religion. Religion didn't create hate. Hate found voice inside religion.
It's the intolerance of right wing fundamentalist christians that's driving young people away from religion, and not because the young are controlled by Satan, though the fundamentalists may very well be.
The primary driver of most global conflict, oppression of women, suppression of science, persecution of gay people, and abuse of power is not religion. It is the extreme fundamentalist wings of all the world's religions that enact these harmful dramas for the rest of humanity. The overwhelming majority of progressive, moderate, and even conservative Christians, Jews, and Muslims are getting along just fine, right now, in all corners of the earth-- just trying to make their way through life and leave a better world for their kids.
But then, people of different backgrounds working together, and building families, and businesses, and communities in a drama free way doesn't attract much media attention. But the violent lunatics and bigots are profitable to get the eyeballs and clicks, and so they get the coverage.
We (and you, LO4E) can and should do better on DU than to spread divisive opinions and sweeping judgements about our people.
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