re: #2 The Vicious Babushka

So who is following Hillel’s “Golden Rule”?

From the sound of the article, I would say the “Nones”, for one.

The worst thing about the religious zealots is that there are millions of good religious people who follow the Golden Rule and millions of good religious Christians who follow Jesus’ teachings, but the vocal minority of US religious asshats who blindingly place politics over religion casts widespread aspersions on religion as a whole. (I think there’s an asparagus joke in there somewhere, but I digress.)

I don’t see the perception of religion improving until politics (namely true bipartisanship and not seeing the other side as The Enemy to not just electorally defeat, but to maim and kill [ideologically speaking]) and political relationships improve…and I don’t see that happening anytime in the near future.