• huzzahunimpressively@lemmy.world
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    It’s incredible that the U.S. is having this discussion again. What’s the point—bringing creationism back to schools or stoning prostitutes?

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      The Christian Right wants to make Christianity supreme and use it as the basis to take away rights of minorities including Muslims and LGBT. They want this as cover to take away sex ed and ban pornography and rap music and a long list of other stuff. Project 2025 laid it out pretty explicitly.

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        Watch some of the people they interview in The God Who Wasn’t There. One of the guys thinks you should be able to execute homosexuals. Just casually talks about it and you realize how the people that talked about the Nazis and the banality of evil, you are watching it.

        Old-ish movie now, but if someone wants to get an idea of what we are dealing with, the interviews with some of the xtians are off the chart…if you don’t talk to xtians much, or live in a different country, or live in a more metro area that is not filled with this kind of delusion, this might be the first time someone comes across this kind of thing.

        Trailer:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_IjNPmIEI

        Full thing:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZrjLLx-aKc

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      GOP politics and agenda are all about control. And religion historically has always been a means of control. Add a more aggressive form of indoctrination instead of education in schools so that you have young people just smart enough to profitable but brainwashed into not being free thinkers who go tribal against anyone against their tribe. Once you have people replacing morality with religion you can alter that religion to match what ever you want as a means of control.

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      The point is replacing a somewhat transparent legal system with an arbitrary mess which makes everyone that isn’t exactly on the politically desired line feel uneasy all the time due to uncertainty of state actions.

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        • Cruisin’ down the center of a two way street
        • Wonderin’ who is really in the driver’s seat
        • Mindin’ my business along comes big brother
        • Says, “Son, you better get on one side or the other.
        • I’m out on the border, I’m walkin’ the line
        • Don’t you tell me 'bout your law and order
        • I’m try’n’ to change this water to wine.
        • After a hard day, I’m safe at home
        • Foolin’ with my baby on the telephone
        • Out of nowhere somebody cuts in
        • Says, “Hmm, you in some trouble boy, we know where you’ve been.”
        • I’m out on the border
        • I thought this was a private line
        • Don’t you tell me 'bout your law and order
        • I’m try’n’ to change this water to wine
        • Never mind your name, just give us your number
        • Never mind your face, just show us your card
        • And we wanna know whose wing are you under
        • You better step to the right or we can make it hard
        • I’m stuck on the border
        • All I wanted was some peace of mind
        • Don’t you tell me 'bout your law and order
        • I’m try’n’ to change this water to wine