Since when did they care about coherence? what a nothingburger
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Immoral and incoherent are both trademarks of MAGAts
No one should be surprised that as these people seize power, which is what they are doing, the party, not the dumbass president and his goons alone, this doesn't end with him, that they kick people out of the in group as they don't need them.
That is fascist 101. These fucking dumbshits trust the ones that will kick them out to tell them what to do.
It's MY cult, not your cult that's good. Only MY cult should be recognized.
I love this Christian infighting.
And then the one best at outcompeting the others after a buncha that dominates, and etc., lovely thread of history we all get to keep weaving.
I'm far too tired to read the article, but Christians disliking other Christians and thinking that other Christians aren't real Christians is totally on point.
Naively I think this fits, but just based on the title.
We need to get the Christians to infight
We have hundreds of years of religious wars in Europe that proves it's an old Christian tradition.
Almost as if the Founders who wrote the 1st amendment could see this coming.
Yeah. It was a general lie that the founding fathers weren't faithful Christians. Outside of autistic Thomas Jefferson, they still seemed to have some form of Christian beliefs. The issue was that each state had its own form Christianity, including state churches, and realized that the federal entity could not be religious as it could cause a major schism in the new Republic.
Also, the Bill of Rights was written with the intent to only bind the Federal Government. It was absolutely intended that individual states could regulate religion and that choice was to be made at the state level.
And there is this old commandment that is like to be ignored.
Thou shalt not kill. *
- There is no asterisk, but all religions that have that commandment act like there is.
many speakers are anti-Mormon
this here is coded language. for one, it shows you that the author is mormon (no one else uses the term anti-mormon)
Ex-Mormon here. I'd like to point out that the author used the incorrect full name of the aforementioned cult in the article. My likeliest guess is that they're someone who was never Mormon and has had little to no contact with a practicing Mormon in their life. So, in the interest of fair journalism, they looked for a cursory glance at Mormonism's usual critics and the church's rebuttal to those critics. They may have used the label 'anti-Mormon' with the same casualness that someone would use 'pro-life' in an article.
Looking at the author's profile and other articles on Salon, it seems like this guess holds the most weight.
You think a liberal feminist journalist who attended a Catholic university in Austin is a Mormon?
I think anyone who is repeating mormon apologetics is a mormon, education or profession notwithstanding.
I don’t think that’s what makes someone Mormon. Maybe I’m wrong.
Wouldn't a Mormon say that the speakers are anti LDS, since they consider 'Mormon' to border on a slur?
The word Mormon flip flops with every new leader. Some get their panties in a twist over it. Some don't. Some run with it.
Oh, I hear last year mormons stopped considering it a slur. Considering the founder of their religion gave them that nickname, you'd expect a little consistency.
And they think they'll all get along once they get rid of all the blacks and gays? Nope, they move on to the next other and repeat.
And thats how fascism works.
In this is why „the left are only fighting each other, the right’s a unified front“ is just demoralising bullshit.
The significant difference is that the right still vote for the right.
No it just shows their morals aren't even foundational. They would vote Democrat if they thought it would gave them power of others.
On the contrary, their morals are very foundational; and they’d often rather die than deviate from them. It’s just that they know their actual morals are reprehensible, so they claim different morals as the winds blow to hide the truth.
Which is, simply, to have an in-group that the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group the law binds but does not protect, and then to plop themselves firmly in the first group and as many people as they can get away with in the second.
They’re fine having some people in the in-group with them, as long as those people think, look, and act like they do; anyone else is a dangerous ‘other’ that must be dumped into the second group immediately.
No, they already want to get rid of hispanics, leftists, unions, political challengers, judges that rule against them, oh yeah, and honest elections, to name few.
Ew that AI generated headline made me throw up in my mouth a bit
Utah exists for a reason. The Christian death cult and all its fucked-ed up spin-offs have always been like this.
*Grammar edit
Without even reading the article, I — and untold large numbers of far more scholarly types — could have told you that. Who among those not under the mass delusionment spell doesn't know this?
Yeah, incoherence and hypocrisy is baked into fascism. That is literally how it has always worked and partially why it is so succesful for some groups of people.
I strongly encourage nasty in-fighting among Christian cults.
"Hey Mormons, you gonna let those Protestants and Catholics get away with saying you're not real Christians? I wouldn't, but I'm not a little bitch."
On the contrary, many speakers are anti-Mormon, including Trump ally and Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who has repeatedly called the Latter Day Saints a “cult.”
Not wrong, but utterly rich coming from the cult of inbreeding.
Trump and MAGA: build concentration camps, detain and murder US citizens, bomb children
Liberals: But it's incoherent!
AND it's incoherent.