About American religions
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 17:05
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If I had to guess... jealousy?
Just kidding. There are some snarks and jabs I didn't have to make that might have prevented the slagging, I'm not entirely innocent here. Thanks for the moral support though!
Not that I intend to drag you into any virtual fights, but several vs 2 feels a little better than several vs me 
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Originally posted by TheHappyTrader:Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:Quote:
There's somewhat of a commitment to do right and help others on your way.
Wow. So that's your whole reason for having a religion? No wonder I don't get it - I thought that was just part of being a freaking human being!!
Oh kwickie, lol, you psychic you
Obviously I couldn't. Hence the question mark. Selectively observant, indeed! ;)
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Or maybe you are just being observant, like selectively. I could arrogantly demand you reread my posts like some posters... but if you mean to intentionally misinterpret me it's not worth the effort.
Why'd you want to bring Rappy into it?
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Not jealousy. Fear. They don't know how to defeat Jesus in an argument.
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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Not jealousy. Fear. They don't know how to defeat Jesus in an argument.
Seriously? People who believe in Invisible Sky Buddies are lecturing rational folks about the flat Earth?
Hilarious.
BTW: Nails defeat Jesus in every argument. Nails have scoreboard.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
BTW: Nails defeat Jesus in every argument. Nails have scoreboard.
Shall I take a cue from your play book and cite this as evidence you support torture? Clearly you must feel inflicting pain upon others is worth more 'points' than a noble sacrifice to atone for every person's sins, past, present and future, and forgiving and even loving one's enemies. Do you consider that being a 'decent freaking human being?'
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Happy is right, Quicko, some might wonder if your decent freakin human being status is in question from your weird comment here. Why are you so ... vehiment ... about this. You remind me of my neighbor Tom, he's our friend and we like hanging with him, have dinner every Sun. but if religeon comes up, particularly Christianity he sort of freaks out, odd that he would freak out so much about something he doesn't even believe in.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she was suspended for ‘He is Risen’ Easter tweet; Twitter calls it an ‘error’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/04/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-sh
e-was-suspended-for-he-is-risen-easter-tweet-twitter-calls-it-an-error-1055195/
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'Allergic reaction to US religious right' fueling decline of religion, experts say
Percentage of churchgoing Americans is steadily falling, and the swirl of rightwing politics and Christianity is playing a key role
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/americans-religion-right
wing-politics-decline
Fewer than half of Americans belong to a house of worship, a new study shows, but religion – and Christianity in particular – continues to have an outsize influence in US politics, especially because it is declining faster among Democrats than Republicans.
Just 47% of the US population are members of a church, mosque or synagogue, according to a survey by Gallup, down from 70% two decades ago – in part a result of millennials turning away from religion but also, experts say, a reaction to the swirling mix of rightwing politics and Christianity pursued by the Republican party.
The evidence comes as Republicans in some states have pursued extreme “Christian nationalist” policies, attempting to force their version of Christianity on an increasingly uninterested public.
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This is fantastic! 
Fuck the Christofascists and the hucksters who lead them.
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Some are now being accused of being anti-Free-Speech because of their stance on jihadi religions
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You don't like certain religions if they stray outside if your range of acceptable.
Not my range
As soon as America was born it was at War with Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli an islamist Pirate Slave Empire of North Africa in the early 19th century.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was the third President of the United States, and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers, known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. In reference to the Islamic slave trade of Americans and Europeans by the Barbary states, Jefferson asked Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. He answered:
The ambassador answered us claimed, that the right was founded on the Laws of the jihad Prophet who prayed to a pedophile terrorist Moongod, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every 'Mussulman' who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise. Barbary pirates continued to demand tribute from American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean. Refusal to pay would result in the capturing of American ships and goods, and often the enslavement or ransoming of crew members. A United Sates Naval fleet was sent to the Mediterranean to combat the Barbary pirates. The fleet bombarded fortified cities in present-day Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria, ultimately extracting concessions of safe conduct from the Barbary states and ending the first war. The Second Barbary War. Lasting only three days, the second conflict ended the need for further tributes by the United States, granted the U.S. full shipping rights in the Mediterranean Sea, and significantly reduced incidents of piracy in the region.
Jefferson later went to war with the Barbary states.
http://www.slate.com/id/2157314/fr/rss/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23938_Hitchens-_What_Jef
ferson_Really_Thought_About_Islam&only?entry=23938_Hitchens-_What_Jefferson_Really_Thought_About_Islam&only
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maybe Roddenberry was onto something with Trek's Prime Directive, non interference
but the Sandbox a factory of religious madness?
Watch: Pro-Palestine activists storm Israeli arms company’s UK HQ
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/06/pro-palestine-activists-st
orm-israeli-arms-companys-uk-hq/
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