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I recognize this artist instantly - it’s Matt Wuerker, a fellow student from Lewis & Clark College. He and I worked on the school paper at the same time - he had already developed his distinctive cartooning style at that age. I don’t recall ever talking with him, so I srsly doubt he would remember me, but I’ve always been a fan of his work. He’s one of the more distinguished L&C grads IMO - along with Monica Lewinsky and actress Markie Post (RIP, best known as the beautiful lawyer on Night Court).
That’s never gonna happen as long as Republicans are fascist religious extremists, and the only other option literally still thinks God talks to them directly.
Biden, 81, told Stephanopoulos, 63, that he doesn’t intend on exiting the race, and only a higher power intervening would make it happen.
"Look, I mean, if the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get outta the race,’ I’d get outta the race,” he said, adding, “The Lord Almighty’s not comin’ down.”
Republicans dove head first into religion, so that means the only other option Americans get is a “benevolent” deluded religious person.
Because no matter how bad Republicans get. Our only other option will always meet them halfway.
I don’t disagree about the GOP, but that quote doesn’t say what you’re asserting it does, lol. He doesn’t say that God talks to him in your quote, he was giving a hyperbolic example of what would make him drop out. Ironically, he dropped out almost immediately after this.
He’s a lifelong devoted Catholic…
When Catholics pray, it’s too God. And they believe God shows them signs for guidance.
Biden believes he communes with God.
That is not something modern society should want in a leader
Which is the entire point of this post …
What was the point of your quote? It was completely irrelevant when you could’ve just said you don’t like religious people at all. Regardless, I don’t give a shit if people pray, I only care if they try to force their religion and/or religious beliefs on others.
Yeah, I think it’s meant as a kind of “when pigs fly” statement.
Does that mean Pelosi is god?
Nah. Their religion is a polytheistic one with the wealthy owner donors as the deities. Pelosi is their prophet and shepherd.
Theology has no place at the table of knowledge
Except in social studies class. People should be aware of other people’s religions. But each religion should be taught equally, or in proportion to how many members they have. Kids should also be able to learn why people join religions and why religions are persuasive.
Except in social studies class.
Social studies class has religious studies for this. There is no place for theology.
Children needs to be taught religion in a way they can comprehend the reasons to believe them, and make them understand what they’re believing in it. Otherwise cults can take over to exploit the lack of knowledge in religion.
If there were any valid reasons to believe a religion was true, there wouldn’t be a problem with teaching it in school.
Children need to be taught religions/cults are a means to bypass their logic and reason and appeal to their emotions, usually because they want something from them.
Especially the religions/cults that have high pressure recruitment.
And remember, the only difference between a cult and a religion is scale.
It would be better to teach critical thinking and how to recognize logical fallacies. No need to teach one specific scam that people fall for.
Alt: the freethought road versus the Orthodox route, a drawing from 1890 about the separate paths faith and reason will lead you to.
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose the path that’s clear; I will choose Freewill!-Freewill by Rush
Bro people just gonna walk around that wall.
Not without science they won’t! /s
The science of… Geography…
And we should let them. People can choose in what to believe in and we shouldnt disallow it. The point is secularism. Church and state should be separate. When organized religion is kept out of public schools, with time, religion slowly fades away as there is less need for it.
Not disagreeing, image is just kinda dumb
It is dumb, its propaganda. Theres very little artistic merit here… its just too on the nose. I mean, do we really need arrows pointing at everything stating the obvious?
Yes, mainly because religion in the government is degrading rational thought.
Yeah, I’m kinda tired of seeing content like that even if I agree with main sentiment. Low quality political content is low quality even if it’s about polices I support, being separation of church and state.
When organized religion is kept out of public schools, with time, religion slowly fades away as there is less need for it.
Is there data to support this? As much as I would love that to be true, I’ve got my doubts. Most religions are not taught in western schools. Despite that, parallel societies are established where a specific religion is fostered. Children are sent to private religious schools and the religion is uphold by these communities.
(This is not an argument against secularism. I’m indeed in favour of keeping proselytizing subjects out of school. Just questions the effect on the evolution of religious demographics.)
You are correct to question it. I honestly have not looked into whether it is causality or just correlation. Based on my own observation, being from a historically catholic region: churchgoing has faded vastly in 30 years, state and public school is secular.
Obvously, you are going to have communities where religion is fostered and the culture preserved. I dont really see a problem in it though. We cant really expect it to go away, nor should we work towards forcing it to go away. An example may be pagan religions which were forcefuly brought down more than a thousand years ago, yet have not been rooted out even today as neo pagan variants are poping back up.
That’s outside of scope
I agree with this sentiment. Otherwise, where is the department of gangbangs? Because, wouldn’t sex be a big government thing? They already want control of when you can fuck and when you can’t as well as what you should do if you fucked and now you’re pregnant. Or pregnant and fucked. But actually, don’t worry if you’re pregnant and can’t undo it, worry about the future of that baby. Its not the kid’s fault, its society. If you think about it, without religion in the way fogging your mind, a sentient human is not fully there when there’s only a few thousand neurons, so it is defined not there even when there’s just a heart beat. Its like having a tiny seed that just sprouted and worrying about the climate change effects if you stop watering it. There’s probably a point in the pregnancy when there’s enough brain activity to think something. But anyway, these are philosophical questions until science can prove them, so there’s no need for government to be involved.
But if there must be sex and religion in government, then totally, I would like to apply for a gangbang license please! If I like it, my wife may be interested too.
France passed such a law.
In 1905.
Damn, Russia was late to the party. Only in 1918. Until Pu made state part of
KGBChurch again.
Now we just have to move the state away from science… maybe another wall?
It’s already pretty far…
Speaking as someone who lives in a state where for a long time, you couldn’t have an ectopic pregnancy terminated.
Speaking as someone who lives in a country that denies climate change and the efficacy of vaccines.
Seems like in the last 20 years, the government (mainly republicans) have dismissed scientists and experts when making policy, instead preferring to legislate around feels and lobbyists.
Separating science from religion is how you get fundamentalism.
Seperating science from religion is how you get religion.
No.
Please do explain, because I seriously grew up thinking mainline religion minus reason equals biblical literalism (aka fundamental religion) but I’m open to believe that may be one of these scenarios.
I remember when Lauren Boebert said the church should be telling the government what to do, and the crowd she said this to cheered.
Maybe I’m even more cynical, but it feels like us evangelical christianity is being used as a tool. A gullible fool.
So all these old gheezers are vaguely pushing for a US Christian nationalism… But coronated someone who doesn’t really care about that beyond how they can elect him, and basically shoved their values out the the party’s window.
And US youth is increasingly less Christian. Including Trump supporting youth.
So… I’m not even worried about this long term, relative to everything else to worry about. There will be short term scares, but post Trump Trumpism is not going to be very religious.
Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation would like a word. Or not. They do better when no one pays attention to them.
You have to be gullible to become an evangelical in the first place.
Orange man indeed doesn’t care.
It’s the people whispering in his ear that are pushing their brand of Christianity™ to positions of power.Evangelical Christianity has absolutely been used as a political tool for the past generation.
EvangelicalChristianity has absolutely been used as a political tool forthe past generationeverFTFY
USA: What about second Church? We can cut school.
How about religious classes in the schools.
How about no?
(Its not forced)
Yet
There were a few time periods in our history where religion and the church where the highest drivers for scientific progress. In part because of the believe that our understanding of the world would bring us closer to it’s creator, but more so the fact that knowledge is power - the more you knew about the world the bigger the kingdom you could rule.
Nowadays access to knowledge is trivial, so the power comes not from the knowledge itself but from controlling the flow of information. If you can find an excuse for people to not ask the right questions, then you have power over them. This is sort of the main shtick with the church and government right now. While the government has the resources, the church has the experience. That’s why they are so hard to separate. They both have a hard on for each other.
