#christian theocracy

[larathia]

Billionaires should not be able to hide.

#plutocracy #christian theocracy

[blackandredblog]

Speaker of the House is a Trump Shill

Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the house, is just another in a line of followers direct from the Project 2025 playbook.

For those unfamiliar, Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto designed to consolidate direct Presidential control of all assets in the Executive branch of the US government, using Unitary Executive theory. This "logic" is based on the vesting clause of Article 2 of the US Constitution. It will eliminate all checks and balances on the office of the president.

This playbook includes replacing all personnel with pro-Trump supporters, banning gender-affirming care and language (even the term gender affirming), gay marriage, abortions, and anything not white, Christian, or conservative.

It would turn the US into a Christian theocracy. A place where AFAB women are breeding stock, and homosexuality becomes a criminal offense again. It would turn the office of the President into a dictatorship.

Johnson has voted against Gay Marriage, against certifying the 2020 election, and is a threat to what's left of this so-called country. His election as speaker of the house is a direct attack on freedom.

We can no longer bury our heads in the sand. We can no longer stand idly by and watch as fascism returns to power. This looks more like the Weimar Republic in 1923 than the United States in 2023.

For any who doubts that this playbook exists, or views this as some Right Wing conspiracy, I invite you to read this document for yourself. This is real. This is a threat. This is not a test.

#fuck facists #facism #mike johnson #donald trump #melania trump #Project 2025 #conservatives #Anarchism #christian theocracy #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #gay marriage #abortion #abortion ban #reproductive rights #2020 election #2020 presidential election #j6 #january 6 #j6 insurrection #insurrection #Stop Facists

[kagenoneko]

This shows you that this lot wants a Christian theocracy.

Sorry, but this is exactly why I refuse to vote for anyone who is a Republican.

#theocracy #christian theocracy

[readingsquotes]

"For two decades he has been quietly, methodically, and patiently building a political machine that has pushed Texas forcefully to the right, sending more and more members of the centrist wing of the Republican Party into exile. A 68-year-old oil billionaire, Dunn seeks to transform Texas into something resembling a theocracy. If you ever wonder why state laws and policies are more radical than most Texans would prefer, the answer has a lot to do with Dunn and his checkbook. If you question why Texas’s elected officials no longer represent the majority of Texans’ views, the reason can be traced to the tactics employed by Dunn and the many organizations and politicians he funds and influences. He has built his own caucus within the Legislature that is financially beholden to him. And despite his Sunday school pleas for comity, Dunn has deepened Texas’s political divisions: there are the Democrats and what remains of the mainstream conservative Republican Party. And then there are Dunn and his allies."

... In the past two years Dunn has become the largest individual source of campaign money in the state by far. Until recently his main tool for exerting influence has been the Defend Texas Liberty PAC, to which he has given at least $9.85 million since the beginning of 2022. This is nearly all the money he contributed to Texas races over that span and the majority raised by the committee. The political action committee targets Republicans, many of them quite conservative, whom it deems insufficiently loyal to the organization’s right-wing agenda.

...

Dunn’s influence goes well beyond campaigns and politics. His résumé is lengthy. He is vice chairman of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a right-wing think tank located a couple of blocks south of the Capitol. TPPF generates policy proposals—from severe property tax cuts to bills that impede the growth of renewable energy—that are often taken up by the Texas Legislature and emulated in other red states. He has served for years on the board of the First Liberty Institute, a legal powerhouse that has won Supreme Court cases to advance Christianity’s role in public life. "

#texas #american politics #christian theocracy #tim dunn #christian nationalism

[infinitemonkeytheory]

[…] every single time I wrote a blog post or made a video that was critical or mocking of Christianity, there was a high likelihood that at least one Christian would say something along the lines of “You wouldn’t dare say this about Islam because you’re too scared.” Or “you’re lucky we Christians are so much better and more peaceful than those Muslim terrorists.”

And it’s those comments that I’m thinking about today, after the retailer Target announced that they would be pulling some “pride” merchandise (celebrating LGBTQ+ people) and relocating it to the back of the store following violence and threats of further violence on the part of Christians:

“Since introducing this year’s collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work. Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.”

[…]

I suppose what I want is for Target to spend some small portion of their billions of dollars increasing security, and trespassing, arresting, and/or prosecuting bigots who come to make trouble. And then I want them to spend another tiny percentage of their billions of dollars supporting LGBTQ organizations in their communities (or what’s left of them after Big Box Stores decimated them) to help those marginalized people feel safe, and to educate others on tolerance. And then, just for a little cherry on top, spend another tiny percentage of their billions of dollars supporting politicians who will unseat the guys passing laws banning books and trying to outlaw pronouns.

Will that happen? No, because it’s easier and cheaper to reduce merchandise, move it to the back of the store, and continue to stop workers from unionizing.

#skepchick #christian wingnuttery #christian theocracy #christian bigotry #christian terrorism

[theozgnomian]

Added in Edit: Having had this up for a while, I have to say that it truly amazes me just how many of the religious (most of them in fact) are the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Not just stupid, but dangerously stupid. So I'm adding a couple of tags to the blog, just for them.

Barnum was right. "There's a sucker born every minute." If you can believe in a god (or gods), an invisible, all knowing, all powerful being, based on nothing but your feelings and some moldy manuscript written before modern medicine and electricity, then you'll believe anything at all, no matter how ludicrous. And the evidence of that is in front of us every damn day. Trump. Republicans. Anti-vax. Anti-science. Climate-denial. Anti-abortion. Flat Earth. Steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Added it Edit on 04/02: Just had a porn pusher call on me to repent. Typical of the breed. Hypocrites, all of them. ROTFLMAO!

#atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #religion #theocracy #idiocracy

[phroyd]

There is no difference in Christian or Islamic Theocracy!

Phroyd

#christianity #islam #politics #religion #theocracy

[lenbryant]

Know your enemies by Coyote Annie, June 2023 edition.

#politics #republicans #maga me sick #maga #anti trans laws #lgbt #christian nationalism #theocracy #transgender #transgender youth

[tomorrowusa]

Do you need more proof that Republicans are becoming even more homophobic by the week?

Whenever you hear somebody thinking of sitting out the election or ruminating about wasting a vote on some automatic loser third party, remind them of the insidious evil which the Republican Party has become.

MAGA Mike Johnson is now the highest ranking Republican in the US. He received every single vote of GOP House members, including the alleged moderates, to become House Speaker.

15 Not-Fun Facts About Speaker Mike Johnson

1. He masterminded Trump’s election coup. 2. He's the least-experienced House Speaker in 140 years. 3. He worked for the conservative legal group behind the case that ended Roe v. Wade. 4. He wants to ban abortion nationwide. 5. He blamed abortion for school shootings. 6. He also blamed abortion for Social Security and Medicare cuts. 7. He blamed mass shootings on the teaching of evolution. 8. He fought to make taxpayers fund a Noah’s Ark theme park. 9. He fought to ban same-sex marriage in Louisiana. 10. He led an anti-gay campus movement. 11. He wrote a lot of homophobic op-eds. 12. He introduced a national version of Florida's "Don’t Say Gay" bill. 13. He was an advocate for "covenant marriage," which makes it harder to divorce. 14. He blamed post-Katrina looting on America turning away from God. 15. He doesn't believe in the separation of church and state.

^^^ click the link to New York Magazine just above the list for details.

The 2024 election pits the 17th century against the 21st century. Republicans don't accept any of that newfangled thinking from The Enlightenment.

#maga mike johnson #speaker of the house #us house of representatives #republicans #the gop #extremism #the far right #trump's attempted coup #creationism #christian nationalism #theocracy #lgbtq+ #homophobia #don't say gay #school shootings #abortion #roe v. wade #reproductive freedom #election 2024

[marzipanandminutiae]

been having fun with the block button today, so let me be perfectly clear:

I do not believe that any organism has the right to use a person’s body to sustain itself without that human’s consent. a person has the right to full and complete bodily autonomy, and that includes the right to determine how, or whether, their body is used to support any other being

I am in favor of fully legal abortion, on request, with no questions asked beyond those which may be necessary to be certain of the patient’s uncoerced consent. and I think it should be covered by health insurance

I do not consider an unborn fetus and a living baby the same thing. but even if someone did come up to another person, holding an actual infant, and say, “my baby will die if they don’t get an organ transplant from you specifically,” the law should not force that person to say yes. in my view, you are not morally obligated to give of your body to save another organism, even if that organism will die without you doing so

(putting aside the question of why a baby would need an adult’s organ. it’s an analogy, you understand)

just because I’m interested in history, historical aesthetics and language, etc. does not mean I hold the prevailing views of those time periods- though, I will note, western history has not always been as universally or strongly anti-abortion as some modern people might like to think

I cannot control who follows me, except to block people I catch Being Asses on my posts. but just know that that is where I stand, and if you disagree with me on the general theme of the bolded statement, that is incompatible with any friendship between us. I can’t be friends with someone who doesn’t think that I- an adult woman -should have complete control over my own body

Ye Be Warned

#personal #abortion #reproductive rights #child death mention #'but THE BIBLE-' not Christian and my religion is fine with it #also this is not supposed to be a theocracy #hope that clears things up

[themessenger02]

As a Christian, I struggle to find connection to God through traditional and contemporary worship music. Though I have tried many times, worship seems false when I'm trying to force it. I lean more towards heavier music, so mushy Chris Tomlin songs don't feel like authentic worship coming from me. When I explain this to people, they always recommend bands like Skillet, but I still don't make a connection there either. So here's a few Christian bands that I highly recommend for those of you who are looking for something a little different. Listening to them and singing their songs really feels like worship to me.

Neal Morse Band - Christian progressive rock, often concept albums

Theocracy - Christian symphonic power metal

Lou Gramm Band (former singer of Foreigner) - Christian rock

Black Fate - Christian power metal

Silent Planet - Christian metalcore

#christian music #worship music #neal morse #theocracy #lou gramm #silent planet #heavy metal #power metal #progressive rock #symphonic metal #metalcore #post hardcore #metalhead #skillet #christian rock #christian metal #rock band #music

[da-riya]

Highlights from my EU4 Austria game up to 1600s

#og post #eu4 #pdx games #not in order but still funny #Had the worst RNG I didn't get any Personal Unions peacefully and had to fight wars to get Milan & Hungary & Bohemia & Brandenburg as PUs #Burgundy fully evaded my grasp and all of this got me so hated I got excommunicated and lost the election to Fucking Pfalz #I'm calling them the German name cuz it's more cringe then The Palatenate #(3 of the 7 electors are literally Theocracies what do you expect. Excommunication and the religious league wars were the end of me) #I got so pissed I switched to the Protestant side of the 30 year war and curbstomped Pfalz but only to sign the Treaty of Westphalia #Allowing me to gitch out and become an Easter Orthodox Christian member of the HRE (since it's peace between ALL Christians after all) #I can't even begin to explain how funny this is. Everyone picked sides based on me being Catholic! #When I switched sides all my allies were my enemies and all my enemies were my allies now. #Everyone lined up to kick my ass and I joined the queue. Then we beat up on some kid instead of me #Anyhow I also married into England without an heir and just... Got a Tudor as heir. The game pesters me to bring back the Habsburgs but no #It's better this way cause then I can try to take control over all the other Tudors (they hate me so that'd be hard) #England rebelled during my orthodox rebellion and so became an independent state seperate from Britian. Those are now two distrinct entitie #There's a England and there's a UK but they're nowhere near each other #And England wants to colonize overseas despit being landlocked. Like... No. Go back to paying me taxes!

[clouds-of-wings]

Every non-Christian metalhead's "one Christian band that I listen to" is back. I like how they will not release anything for 7 years, then slide into my Release Radar with a 19 minute long song. Which is a banger, of course.

19 minutes! Because PROG METAL!

#prog metal #progressive metal #theocracy band #music #american metal #the 'one christian band' thing is mainly based on power metal reddit #so don't take it too literally #but people there love them

[infinitemonkeytheory]

#betty bowers #christian nationalism #christian theocracy #youtube

[theozgnomian]

The Founders on Church and State

For all those Christians out there claiming that the United States was founded as a Christian Nation. You're ALL liars, every fucking last murderous ignorant one of you. Thank you for your attention.

#atheism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #religion #christo fascists #theocracy #conservative politics as usual

[phroyd]

Modern Religious Conservative Politicians want a Fascist State with servile obedience from the population, an obeyance which mirrors their Christian indoctrination.

This is NOT Democracy ... It is Theocracy!

Phroyd

#christian #democracy #gop #politics #republicans #theocracy