#theocrats

"Dec. 6, 2017

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and setting in motion a plan to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City...

"...John O. Brennan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said in a statement that Mr. Trump’s action was “reckless” and would “damage U.S. interests in the Middle East for years to come and will make the region more volatile.”

...Mr. Trump’s promise to move the embassy appealed to evangelical voters and pro-Israel American Jews, including Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate. By delivering on that promise, Mr. Trump’s aides said, he was enhancing his credibility as a peacemaker."... --NYT

Bitch, modern Evangelicalism didn't exist before the 1890s, when it stole the name of a pre-Civil War Great Awakening thing to be an utterly political church movement opposed to women's suffrage and organized labor.

This thing has been wealthy business owners weaponizing religion to con the middle class into clinging to them from Day One.

And let us not forget that branch of Evangelicals in the South, who became the modern Baptists. There was a big split between them and the other "old" Evangelicals starting in like the 1830s. Guess what about.

"Matt Walsh and the Case for Destroying Someone’s Faith" - Genetically Modified Skeptic

Summary: When is attempting to destroy someone's faith justified? Arguably, when people use their religious beliefs to justify their bigotry, force their ideas on others, and create laws to hurt people, then situational anti-theism is justified.

Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest caused an uproar in a talk he gave at a church last week.He articulated what Christian conservatives have believed about our country, and more specifically, our region since the end of the Civil War. He said, “[N]o other nation, my friends, has ever survived the diversity and multiculturalism that America faces today, because of a lack of assimilation, because of…