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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's pretty apparent that when the GOP's federalism meets the GOP's need for religious wingnut voters, the latter wins out.
(Using "wingnut" in the ironic sense, of course. These voters are principled people -- whose views I disagree with -- and rather few of them are wingnuts.)
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No, they're wingnuts. In fact, they're fucking idiots. You're too polite on this issue. So are a lot of people. I'm sick of placating the stupid because "they're beliefs are so sacred to them." Fuck them. If I believe an alien race is going to visit my backyard and take my wife and I to Blisstonia*, is such a view entitled to be considered rational? Fuck no. In the same vein, organized religion cobbles otgether a littany of tribal rituals, ancient beliefs and superstitions and packages them as having been derived from God. The Pope's edicts are as valid and credible as gene Simmons' opining about "the Good Life" in last month's Maxim. Neither is worth anything more than the ether it occupies. Just because some Southern Baptist shit-for-brained idiot screams something is "sacred" and "indellibly right" doesn't mean his idiot viewpoint is not worthy of my derision. When did it become wrong to call out another's stupidity? Why can't I ask the religious for proof? Why in the hell do I have to listen to their claptrap and treat it as though its scientifically sustainable?
All this said, on logical bases, I believe in some sort of creating force. But I think you really have to have shit for brains to buy any organized religion. They're all self-contradicting nonsense.
