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Seth Meyers Continues Skewering the Trump Horror: Fox News Showers Trump With Praise, Obsesses Over Hillary

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Jay C10/27/2017 10:05:21 am PDT

re: #199 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

That whole article is terrifying. Iā€™m not religious, but Iā€™ve suspected for a while that the American right needs religion to hold their more vicious instincts in check. They donā€™t 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 ā€œhold 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.
ā€œReligionā€ in this country - or at least its political manifestations on the Right - seems to have become mainly a case of ā€œwho do you hate?ā€ - with Divine approbation of said hate the default bottom-lineā€¦