Tim Kaine: RE: Divine mandate to undermine American democracy. We need answers.

[ffr]

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Will someone refer this criminal conduct to the DOJ, to someone over there who has a backbone!!!

How about it Merrick Garland? FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!

[Walleye]

1. They have believed in this divine mandate for decades. They still do operate under it

This is the real danger. Movements that think God is on their side believe they can do no wrong in pursuit of their goals. We have to recognize what religious fanaticism is

[Hekate]

2. Many thanks to Senator Kaine for calling this out for what it is

[PufPuf23]

3. The elephant in the room of the American body politic is

toxic Christianity.

Conservative Christians work in conjunction to tilt the system in their favor and cheat given the opportunity. Conservative Christians define this as virtue rather than hate.

Many white conservative Christians given the chance would kill the rest of us.

The World is plagued by toxic religion (and not for the first time). Toxic religion usually wins in human history.

[2naSalit]

4. Indeed.

They create some kind of ever-changing pretzelogic to fit whatever it is they have come to think... which is malleable and easily fashioned by clever opportunists who recruit them as faithful but uninformed warriors for the cause.

Religion works best for this because people will believe things they cannot prove where accountability requires proof to be believed.

[jmbar2]

5. I wish that Tim Kaine would do a Sheldon Whitehouse treatment of the Dominionist threat

Someone needs to hammer it and keep hammering it. It's a fringe Christian group, and needs sane Christians to rebuke it.

As a Jesuit, Tim Kaine has the cred to do it.