re: #199 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
That whole article is terrifying. Iām not religious, but Iāve suspected for a while that the American right needs religion to hold their more vicious instincts in check. They donāt go for secular humanism.
LOLWUT? You might be right on principle, but the reality is that the American Right (or a decidedly non-trivial percentage of it) uses religion not to āhold their more vicious instincts in checkā, but to provide an easy, non-refutable rationale for said instincts, and as an excuse to enact them into public policy.
āReligionā in this country - or at least its political manifestations on the Right - seems to have become mainly a case of āwho do you hate?ā - with Divine approbation of said hate the default bottom-lineā¦