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

Whenever the state executes, or tries to execute someone, even if they deserve it, I always think life in prison would be better And whenever that happens, I think of this Because undoubtedly many who believe in hell naturally feel it their duty to send people there

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Many people have said Jesus always stood for the oppressed I have said before and I’ll say again No he fucking didn’t Not when he said to forgive whoever strikes you hundreds of times and give your other cheek Not when he said widows should give their last mites to support rabbis and disciples

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One thing I know for certain about a Republican from Utah is that he must be a sincere believer in Mormonism If he wasn’t, how could he ever be elected in Utah? If he didn’t sincerely believe his opportunities were blessings, how could a sincere believer ever hope to get away with mortgage fraud?

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whenever I see news out of the Middle East I can only ask myself one question Is this happening because the God these people believe in is real? Or because he is not? I don’t know how anyone can watch it and still believe in him And I don’t know how they expect to get away with it unless they do

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who here would read an institutional horror anthology about a company that sells time travel adventures to the super rich?

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The TVs are filled with ads showing Hasan Piker and Abdul El-Sayed threatening to crush America with socialism and for once it puts a smile on my face because I can feel America getting ready to admit it is already crushed and what crushed it was capitalism

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People always say Jesus was a liberal It’s definitely true Jesus WAS a liberal But if he said he was going to come back & throw whoever doesn’t like him in a lake of fire then he had a mean conservative streak And if he talked that way then certainly not every knee is ever going to bow before him

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What I wish US liberals, leftists and moderates all understood about Trump is that he’s like Constantine He made it the law that a father could have his daughter and her boyfriend burned alive for having premarital sex Obviously such a law was never enforced except to serve the interests of power

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

White supremacy never had to become Christian It always was What really happened was, Christian supremacy became white Segregation of sheep from goats was something the gospel of Christ always advertised as a selling point They advertised it so much that they promised it would last for eternity

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anyone doubts that Christian nationalists are destroying the world on purpose to keep from realizing their religion isn’t true, I invite you to read the chapters of Genesis where God sends Egypt a crisis for his chosen man to take advantage of, to enserf his free citizens and extort his neighbors

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To be a Christian is to believe the Bible is a reflection of almighty benevolence And the Bible is full of cruelties and canonical inconsistencies It is useless to point to the better half of the contradiction when the worse half is missionary triumphalism leading only to an eternal holocaust

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I shared this on Facebook I got two replies from a classmate who is 2nd generation quiverfull She asked, when did I get so cynical? I should have asked, which of us is cynical? I’m not the one who thinks history leads to an eternal holocaust, and even if it does I’m not bargaining to benefit

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I was growing up, Christian nationalists told me Christian nationalism must be true because people died for it They also said anyone who killed themselves was going to hell So if a soldier in a Christian army on a Christian war attempts suidcide, that proves Christian nationalism is not true

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It took me this long to see what they did there in Snowpiercer

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whenever I tell the story of my deconstruction from Christianity, I need to mention that nobody abused me sexually But whenever I hear adults tell children lies that I know from experience will take decades to figure out, I know either they are some kind of predator or they were groomed by one

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When someone stands in front of an audience and says they have a divine right to slaughter their enemies, one of two things we know to be true, or both Either they sincerely believe what they’re saying, and are willing to die for it Or they are even more sure that their audience sincerely does

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It amazes me every day that people all over the world can see people pretending to have a divine right of conquest and still believe in God anymore Certainly this could only be happening in the name of an evil God And what is the point of believing in that? What is the inevitable result?

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For Abdul El-Sayed to campaign with Kamala Harris makes sense because she was the most independent candidate of Israel in my lifetime with the possible exception of Barack Obama And for Harris to campaign with El-Sayed now makes her more independent than Obama

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When I was a freshman at Bible college, I had a professor with eleven kids and counting He told us in class that the reason he had them was so he could walk into any room and always feel better than every other man He never shared his wife’s name I knew then I would always feel better than him

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The next party to win an election in the US with Reagan-like numbers will be the next one that pledges no more money for Israel and pledges to spend it on education and health care instead of bombs If they can’t make those pledges, they either won’t win with those numbers, or they just won’t win

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

According to American Christianity, if anyone can’t afford their own health care then they don’t deserve any This may seem contradictory, but it is absolutely not According to all Christianity, all things work together for good for whoever believes it, and whoever doesn’t believe it can go to hell

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The only definition of socialism in the US is: anything the government does to improve someone else’s life than your own If it benefits you it’s seen as individualism Religion is the blind faith that this will arc toward justice And how many sincere believers stand athwart justice yelling ‘STOP’?

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anytime the media report a death by hanging in public and the investigators presume it was a suicide, that’s when you know the investigators are not doing their jobs and neither are the reporters This is so much malpractice, it could only happen if the investigators were in on it, and the media too

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In 1899, Robert Ingersoll felt that Christianity had still some meat left on the bone His fatal heart attack was then coming quickly but not quickly enough to stop him from finishing ‘Some Reasons for Doubting the Inspiration of the Bible’ A new deck of 60 highlights, coming soon

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If I had been educated about Persian and Indian music at the same time I was educated about European ‘Classical’ music, I would have thought Mozart was overrated And I might have had the same thought of every other European composer before the 21st century with the exception of Beethoven

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A woman from Australia is being retroactively disqualified from a race that she won because she shat herself As a man, let me just say that if a man ever finished a race after shitting himself he would certainly be praised and if he won he would be held up as a model of virtue

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Billionaires should not exist Simply not even one of them I don’t know why that was so hard to see for so long or why it wasn’t immediately obvious to everyone else the first time it happened Such an accumulation of power and privilege is inimical to liberty and justice for all

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When gas stations start running out of diesel, it’s worth knowing that the people causing the supply shock did it on purpose Billionaires are accelerationists Some anyway They’re running the same playbook they did on Egypt in the book of Genesis But according to Exodus it went badly for everyone

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was mistaken I said Washington never freed his slaves Actually he freed everyone he was allowed to under state law The true questions are: - why he didn’t do it sooner - and why the law was in the way at all Well, the short answer to both questions is because of the Bible

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ are getting a woke reboot and Christian conservatives are upset I’m sure it won’t be all that woke But the very idea that a woman could lead without being an antagonist is too woke for some people Will they make it to the ‘Last Battle’ this time? Somehow I doubt it

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was always told by Christian conservatives growing up that I should always elect their candidates because otherwise liberals would put bestiality and pedophilia everywhere But back then those behaviors disqualified you to work for the FBI And now the FBI can’t even staff itself without them

Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If anyone asks about the crisis of masculinity, where being all the healthy male role models for men, first let them emulate women After they’ve done some of that I can suggest a man If any man wonders why he should emulate an atheist from long, long ago, I ask him, does he want to grow old happy?

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Believe it or not, the promise of God to men, that he made women to complete them, is the main reason men believe in God anymore And perhaps it always was The truth is almost the opposite Every man started out as a female embryo & went through a sex change You could have been a woman to this day

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Bible is the best selling book of all time, as well as the most brutal scripture The largest empires that ever existed made it the basis of literacy in their domains But any other scripture, taken as literature, makes the Bible look like McDonald’s And so does the average book in print today

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Whenever Christians do something horrible that Jesus never would’ve done at his first coming, it’s something he would’ve done at his second Longstanding confusion about the latter day’s timing has given rise to many such cases And to this day every believer thinks all things work together for good

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🧵 Robert Green Ingersoll was and is the most well spoken atheist in recorded history I believe he was the first to devote his life to talking everyone out of religion In 1881 he was at an early peak of his influencer career And he gave ‘Some Reasons Why’ Here are my highlights

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When you do a billionaire’s bidding and follow it up with a statement that says you’re not complicit, that’s called pulling an Ed Sheeran

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When I was growing up, my entire family said Israel was ‘the chosen people’ We believed the Israeli state had a divine right of ownership over everything between Nile and Euphrates, if not over the whole world I don’t think any of us would say so today It would feel like saying the N word

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When you see the look on Pink’s face while she stands up for genocide and it’s the same as the look on the southern belle’s face in ‘Gods and Generals’ then you understand that Israel is just like the Confederacy and the Confederacy was just like Israel

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Free Palestine Most of its people are Semitic, not that that matters to the ones occupying them The occupation is the real antisemitism

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Being the first country to put weapons in space makes me want to throw up

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore’s full statement, that he got cancelled for, was as perfect as any middle school civics student ever gave Ed Sheeran then had the chance to tell Robert Kraft ‘free Palestine 🖕’ and he didn’t do it Instead he told the oppressed he would have to stay neutral

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As far as I know, Robert Ingersoll was the first person in history, American, at least, who dedicated their life to talking everyone out of religion altogether I know it hasn’t happened yet But the more I read his work the more I think it would be a good idea Coming soon, ‘Some Reasons Why’

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The same person who regards indigenous people as beneath them will be proud of their own Neanderthal DNA, or Cherokee, for that matter, as soon as it’s pointed out to them on a test

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In preparation of my next series from Ingersoll, I read up a bit about John Brown Undoubtedly he believed in God At least as much as Dietrich Bonhoeffer ever did I did not know Brown went the last 22 years of his life without ever going to church and actually refused a minister at the gallows

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are two kinds of men in Christianity Those who, in their personal practice, are less sexist than the theology they believe is sacred For example, James Talarico And those whose practice is even more sexist than their belief For example, his opponent

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi @jamestalarico.bsky.social I don’t know if you talked about this with your focus groups or not but when you confirm conservative prejudices, it doesn’t earn you conservative votes It confirms conservative prejudices And then they vote for the person who had those prejudices all along

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I saw Riley Gaines, the republican college swimmer who became an anti-trans crusader, is now on social media holding her baby complaining about the medical bills she can’t pay or even understand I feel so sorry for her baby They certainly didn’t choose their parents

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every once in a while I gain a burst of followers from resistor packs and then lose some over time Of course, most resistors believe in God, and some are bound to unfollow me when they see what I’m about Ingersoll had much the same experience I still think he’s been proven right all along

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Religion *is* politics @religionispolitics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Consider the cult of the messiah figure Is it possible that the myth of a savior is the thing we most need saving from?

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