Shadi Hamid on Morning Joe. The single worst guest I think I have ever seen on that show.

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21. I find his ideas repugnant, bigoted, and his analysis shoddy, simple as that. It really pissed me

off that he chose to toss LGBTQ rights under the bus by trying to frame it as being some sore of outcome of 'wokeness', a concept which he chooses to make one of his principal foils via a negative framing that comes straight out of the RW playbook.

I do not engage with religious people (on the topic of religion) until their beliefs impinge upon my rights or they wish to have a colloquy in regards to religion. I am most definitely not a proselytising atheist, but I refuse to cede ground to people who try and interfere with my life and other people's lives based off their religious beliefs. Radical interpretations of religions are not woven out of the aether, they are an inevitable consequence of the entire concept of religion to begin with. Religion is nothing if not a system of control, and when control is intertwined with magical thinking and the baser parts of human nature, horrid outcomes are fated to occur. The answer to that is not to introduce a variant of further magical thought and control, as that ploy is once again reliant on the baser natures somehow being held in check by the same apparatuses that lead to the negative outcomes in the first place. It is simply setting up humankind for further misery down the road, kicking the 'god can', if you will, down the road.