• ShooBoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    American’s are caught up in so much BS that doesn’t matter. We aren’t even capable of focusing on what does matter. All the facts are right there in front of us but we ignore them. We are turning away from science and returning to superstition and religious fanaticism. This whole republic/democracy experiment thing needs competent, clear thinking people to keep it together. It doesnt matter if they are believers or not, they just need to be sane. There seems to be less and less of those people running around or at least speaking up about it. If we keep going down the road we are going now, there is no hope for us. We may have already lost the battle and just dont realize it yet.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think the US has ever not been overly religious. Most of its history has been full of religious people doing terrible things and framing social issues in religious terms.

      Colonization? Religion. Ethnic cleansing of the natives? Religion. Manifest destiny? Religion. The Mexican-American war? Religion. Prohibition? Religion. The Red Scare? Religion. The Ku Klux Klan and other racists? Better believe it’s religion.