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The Lost Plot
The fundamental error persists in the public that there are definite answers, “solutions,” or views which need only be uttered in order to spread the necessary light.
— Carl Gustav Jung
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TAXIDERMIED RELIGION
One of the surest hallmarks of dying religion is catechism classes where children are given answers to questions they have never once asked….
It is important to note that neither Jesus nor Buddha taught by catechism. ”
— Jim Rigby
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I need you to understand something and I say it without any hyperbole: white Evangelicals need to be stopped, now.
If the 2022 midterms elections allow Republicans to gain control of Congress, Conservative Christians will decimate this nation, and LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again….
Yet, they were still a largely powerless, dying dinosaur until 2016, when Donald Trump acquired the presidency and gave the Evangelicals the perfect amoral partner to serve as the biggest bully pulpit they’ve ever had. Combine that with a fragmented Left, a general fatigue by the larger population, a ceremonial victory in Congress (thanks to Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema), and Republican attacks on…
