re: #86 Interesting Times

I see what’s happening, but you’d be amazed at how much of a blinder religious faith and self-concept can be - I’ve really been dismayed at the number of wingnuts on another non-political forum I belong to. They seemed like reasonable, intelligent people, but holy FSM are they ever batshit when it comes to religion/politics. One extolled the virtues of Biblical slavery, and another claimed that, because children can also drown in swimming pools, we shouldn’t have any regulations on guns unless we ban swimming pools as well o_O

The only conclusion I can draw is, these people see non-wingnut views as a direct threat to their self-worth and religious identity. That’s why they’re so easy for creeps like beck and limbaugh to deceive and swindle.

That’s it in a nutshell. As I said before, Freedom, for them, means Freedom FOR THEM. The right to do as they damn please, including preventing others from doing things they don’t approve of. Hence the claim that allowing same-sex marriage infringes on their freedom of religion, somehow.