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Religion is politics of the unknown ☁️ The things you are liable to read 📖 in the Bible ain’t necessarily so 🔍 It’s a recipe for extremism 🇺🇸 A playbook for tyrants ✝️⚛️ I know we can do better✌️💙☮️ #exChristian #proChoice #atheist ReligionIsPolitics.com

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · Nov 15

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Hello beautiful community

I’d like to introduce myself & explain what I’m doing here

I’m here because all my life Christian apologists have told me politics is false religion

& I think that’s backwards

Religion is false politics

Politics about the unknown

The testimony of an #exChristian

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 8h

Obviously the real shits the president dropped on America were the prejudices of his lingering supporters who justify an elected official releasing a video like that, or any of the other shitty things he’s said & done, to justify his contempt for country & hatred for humanity

Thus it becomes them

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 9h

Even the most powerful and secure men on earth have a problem with accountability

Even when the worst that could happen to them would be to apologize and make financial restitution

Usually they’re the same men creating that stereotype about women

Obviously for the same reason

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 1d

These are the same people who say the Old Testament theocracy was a republic

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 1d

The only difference between these men’s belief systems is which people they expect to see in a lake of fire

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 1d

It is inherently evil to belong to his church

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 1d

He thinks as long as it’s Christians owning non-Christians then it’s okay

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 2d

They’re taking away food stamps in Jesus’ name to bail out libertarianism in Argentina

Jesus said the rich should give the poor everything they had

And if he’s been watching them use his name to take everything from the poor for the past 2,000 years then I’m sure he did the best he could have done

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 3d

He didn’t love his own kids either

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Child abuse is a sincere Christian religious belief

Even the Bible says to keep domestic abuse inside the church

It says keep the church out of court

It says spank your kids as much as you need to

When the whole religion is about a virgin giving birth then we probably shouldn’t be too surprised

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 4d

They’re under an ancient curse

a man with a beard is smiling in a crowd .

ALT: a man with a beard is smiling in a crowd .

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 4d

A little while ago a medium level racist was murdered

The murderer said he was tired of all the hate

In response, racists blamed non-racists for inciting the murder & said they were the real racists

And now we know the man who was killed was LESS RACIST on average than his fans

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Young republicans have been told all their lives by their pastors in church that N*zis were trans people and trans people are N*zis

Then they go to college & inevitably learn the N*zis were extremely opposed to trans people

At this point, they will either become liberal, or they will become N*zi

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Right

That’s why when I was a creationist I read a book by a dentist pretending to show that the Neanderthal fossils were all proof of biblical creation

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 4d

A hundred years ago the explanation was racism

That is, there were people before Adam and Eve that were not human

They didn’t become human until they married into Adam’s family

Today the explanation is incest

Believers are okay with incest if God is

They’re okay with racism by the same token

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 4d

If you think God made Adam and Eve but not Adam and Steve, and you think whoever has any other religion than yours deserves a fate worse than death, then you are going to erase trans people from your culture

Because you are going to erase anyone from your culture that doesn’t confirm your worldview

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 5d

I like this theory but the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid from far out in the solar system and I don’t think the earth had any intention of causing it

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 5d

A lot of men in the US are feeling anxious because most of the young women want nothing to do with them

These men believe women having options is the downfall of civilization

But actually the downfall of civilization is if those men reproduce

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 5d

He’s a groomer

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 5d

The populated part of Alaska was devastated by a hurricane & FEMA isn’t responding

It’s a little bit of a Balto situation which is what FEMA is for but they’re not responding

Their elected leadership can afford to airlift supplies across the globe but cannot afford to admit climate change is real

a cartoon wolf standing in front of a door

ALT: a cartoon wolf standing in front of a door

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 5d

Artificial unintelligence

Explains a lot about science and government

Explains everything about business and religion

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 5d

Today, Republicans gave us (again) their definition of locker room talk

That is, they told us (again) who they really are

Believe them

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 6d

Young Republicans say they’re ready to watch people burn now

Maybe they are sincere Christian believers who really believe in hell

Or maybe they were excited for the Rapture and they just missed it

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 6d

He’s got the job he wants and he’s probably already getting paid for it

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 6d

Win some, lose some

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 6d

I believe whether the world is getting better or worse in the long run is directly tied to whether it’s getting easier or harder for women to choose their relationships with men

And I was raised to believe that the downfall of civilization was women having a choice at all

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