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Can We Please Stop Pretending To Be Shocked ... (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Jun 2022
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Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)1. K&R
The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)2. Give The Gentleman A Big Ceegar, Sir
Nailed it in one.
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)3. K&R
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)4. Kicked
lark
(23,121 posts)5. They've been heading this way since the 70's.
Thats a big part of the reason I got out of the Baptist church, they were all redneck right wing assholes and I totally couldn't relste.
niyad
(113,370 posts)6. And do not pretend to be shocked at their misogyny and woman-hating.
Takket
(21,578 posts)7. You might enjoy this post from earlier today. Same idea.
Emile
(22,791 posts)8. Spot on!
So true.
sop
(10,205 posts)9. An exhaustive history of Christian Totalitarianism, both in America and the West:
"Christian Totalitarianism"
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Religion/Christian%20Totalitarianism.htm
ck4829
(35,077 posts)10. K&R
Last edited Fri Jul 29, 2022, 04:24 AM - Edit history (1)
https://a-christian-nation.blogspot.com/2022/07/funny-how-christian-nation-supposedly_29.htmlBeastly Boy
(9,376 posts)11. I am not even shocked to see so many fascists in America.
For more than a century, we've been conditioned to accept rhetoric of "American exceptionalism", "manifest destiny" and being "Number One" without ever questioning it.
These are all populist, totalitarian anti-democratic and supremacist concepts. You reap what you sow.
twodogsbarking
(9,761 posts)12. He is going to burn in hell for writing that.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)13. K & R...nt
progressoid
(49,991 posts)14. I'm not shocked.
I'm sick and tired of it though.
Solomon
(12,311 posts)15. +10,000