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1. I see it in their disdain for protests

Reply to Comatose Sphagetti (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 12:53 PM

Jan 2017

They will say "at least we didn't riot (their word for protest) as if that makes them look virtuous. I want to ask them, is there nothing that would make you protest? No matter how bad things got from your point of view, you would never protest? That tells me they are authoritarian followers who are smug in their pride that they always do as they are told.

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Authoritarian followers [View all] Comatose Sphagetti Jan 2017 OP

I see it in their disdain for protests treestar Jan 2017 #1

I've read Altemeyer's book twice now. octoberlib Jan 2017 #2

Religion is the opium of the masses BSdetect Jan 2017 #3

Breaks my heart that my fellow Christians behave the way they do and voted for evil. hrmjustin Jan 2017 #4

Whatever it may mean to be a Christian, they are not Christians pangaia Jan 2017 #6

K n r Achilleaze Jan 2017 #5

this is THE problem w religion. mopinko Jan 2017 #7

Strugglilng to make sense of Trump's authoritarian shit show? Snarkoleptic Jan 2017 #8

People who belong to religious denominations that encourage The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #9

Well said. (EOM) Comatose Sphagetti Jan 2017 #11

Half of them would have zero compunction about sending people to the gas chamber dalton99a Jan 2017 #10