One thing that I don't think gets talked about nearly as much as it needs to in discussions about the future is the need to at the very least put some kind of legislative restraints on christianity and the church.
You can draw a straight line between christians demanding to be able to "teach the controversy" around evolution vs creation and the staunch denial of objective reality that underpins the entire republican...well, everything. The sadism and bigotry that forms the core republican ethos also draws directly from christianity and its charming penchant for gleeful genocide.
The Johnson amendment was a good idea and a step in the right direction, but it utterly failed. As evidenced by the christian fascist hellhole we're stuck with.
Bare minimum the church needs to lose its tax free status and there will need to be a concerted effort at the IRS and other agencies to crack down on churches trying to wiggle their way out of paying taxes by claiming they're something they're not.
While I'm whistling for the moon, I also think there needs to be a standardized curriculum teaching students about christianity's history of atrocities and its complicity in authoritarian and fascist regimes throughout history. Textbooks are going to have to be re-written to get the christian garbage out of them to begin with anyway. They should also be amended to state that jesus was a myth if he's mentioned at all.
It’s the factory settings of the USA that worries me so much. Despite Europe’s engagement in colonialism and imperialism worldwide, nation-states on that continent didn’t necessarily start out being so explicitly racialized in the ways that America did. And I just recently found out that Canada has a Truth and Reconciliation Day to remember the forced internment of Indigenous people there. Can you imagine if the USA did something similar? America’s original sins keep holding us all back, time after time.
...Possibly because Canada completely abolished slavery when the UK did back in 1834, a movement which started in 1793 with the Act Against Slavery (limited to "Upper Canada" which was British territory then), and did it without fighting a war, then neglecting to PUNISH the perpetrators(!), first.
One thing that I don't think gets talked about nearly as much as it needs to in discussions about the future is the need to at the very least put some kind of legislative restraints on christianity and the church.
You can draw a straight line between christians demanding to be able to "teach the controversy" around evolution vs creation and the staunch denial of objective reality that underpins the entire republican...well, everything. The sadism and bigotry that forms the core republican ethos also draws directly from christianity and its charming penchant for gleeful genocide.
The Johnson amendment was a good idea and a step in the right direction, but it utterly failed. As evidenced by the christian fascist hellhole we're stuck with.
Bare minimum the church needs to lose its tax free status and there will need to be a concerted effort at the IRS and other agencies to crack down on churches trying to wiggle their way out of paying taxes by claiming they're something they're not.
While I'm whistling for the moon, I also think there needs to be a standardized curriculum teaching students about christianity's history of atrocities and its complicity in authoritarian and fascist regimes throughout history. Textbooks are going to have to be re-written to get the christian garbage out of them to begin with anyway. They should also be amended to state that jesus was a myth if he's mentioned at all.
To be fair, all religions should have the same limits.
Also billionaires
::Pictures Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Commander Will Riker phasering the alien slug-person who created billionaires::
https://youtu.be/g_Vr9LnogLM?si=eRZTVWT3ZJGEjWsx
::smiles::
It’s the factory settings of the USA that worries me so much. Despite Europe’s engagement in colonialism and imperialism worldwide, nation-states on that continent didn’t necessarily start out being so explicitly racialized in the ways that America did. And I just recently found out that Canada has a Truth and Reconciliation Day to remember the forced internment of Indigenous people there. Can you imagine if the USA did something similar? America’s original sins keep holding us all back, time after time.
...Possibly because Canada completely abolished slavery when the UK did back in 1834, a movement which started in 1793 with the Act Against Slavery (limited to "Upper Canada" which was British territory then), and did it without fighting a war, then neglecting to PUNISH the perpetrators(!), first.