Show threadMidgePhoto18h ago
@ciaranmak I wish a regime change on them, and a loss of privileges for their #theocrats.
Show threadPaul HealeyJan 23
@maltita Binary thinking, is for the profoundly stupid and starved of imagination: #values can be indeterminate, uncertain, determinate or transcendental and to that add the futility of the absurd! #XY #FascistDogWhistles #FascistAbuse #CultsAreOwned #TheDogAbusers #MAD #Demigods #FreedomFromTheFew #Oligarchs #Plutocrats #Despots #Theocrats #Davos #OwnedByTheMob #FreedomFromCorporateSovereignty #RepublicSovereignty #TheFederation
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 6, 2025

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

   To Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, are we indebted, more than to all others, for a human government, and for a Constitution in which no God is recognized superior to the legally expressed will of the people.
   They knew that to put God in the Constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought. They knew the terrible history of the church too well to place in her keeping, or in the keeping of her God, the sacred rights of man. They intended that all should have the right to worship, or not to worship; that our laws should make no distinction on account of creed. They intended to found and frame a government for man, and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality and liberty of all; to prevent the few from governing the many, and the many from persecuting and destroying the few.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #America #Constitution #freedom #freedomofreligion #government #liberty #religiousfreedom #religiousintolerance #secularism #theocrats

LevkaFeb 13, 2025

#India #theocrats

"Hindutva religious extremists attacked the Tirupati book exhibition on February 8 Saturday evening. In protest against this attack, under the leadership of the 'Tirupati Book Lovers’ United Forum,' poets, writers, book lovers, and representatives of several public organizations held an impressive demonstration on Tuesday evening.

It may be recalled a similar attack on a Veekshanam Book stall, by Hindutva hoodlums had taken place at Hyderabad Book Fair a few weeks ago, on Dec 29, and it was widely condemned."

https://countercurrents.org/2025/02/writers-and-book-lovers-protest-against-the-fascist-attack-on-books-in-tirupati/

Dan, the US is the threat!Feb 2, 2025
I wonder when the infightings will start: on one Side you have the #oligarchs Who basicaly own #msm and control informations, the #theocrats Who want God in charge (when they realize they've been conned), the #federalistssociety, the #neonazis, many interests that don't necessarily meet in the end.
Maybe my view is a little naïve?
Show threadFeral ThoughtsSep 26, 2024

@cstross @santiago

#dictatorship for thee, #liberalDemocracy for me.

How else does one govern savages 😉

Those poor #liberals are now shell-shocked as the weeds they showered far and wide across the periphery now invade the centre; and metropolis after imperial metropolis falls to #fascists, #neoNazis, and all kinds of weird #theocrats.

Naturally, who else but #Putin has the chutzpah and the supernatural ability to achieve this. /s

smegJun 27, 2024

Theocracy is being implemented in America. The GOP is following the playbook of the Taliban.

https://www.4029tv.com/article/ryan-walters-bible-taught-oklahoma-schools/61442865
#churchandstate #religioninamerica #firstamendment #religiousfreedom #freedomofreligion #religion #christianity #theocracy #theocrats #oklahoma

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 29, 2024

"According to Parker, because 'human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself.' …

Whatley has been outspoken about using politics to translate his religious beliefs into public policy."

#Trump #Republicans #DonWhatley #Alabama #theocrats #IVF
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 29, 2024

"On February 16, Alabama's highest court ruled that frozen embryos are 'children' — entitled to the same legal protections as an infant or a third grader. This was based on a religious conviction of when life begins. In a concurring option, Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker stated that the decision is grounded 'theologically based view of the sanctity of life.'"

#Trump #Republicans #DonWhatley #Alabama #theocrats #IVF
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William Lindsey Feb 29, 2024

Judd Legum notes that as Trump has chosen North Carolina Republican Party chair Don Whatley as RNC chair, we need to look at the official policy statements of the NC Republicans:

"The position of the North Carolina GOP under Whatley on embryos mirrors a recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court."

#Trump #Republicans #DonWhatley #Alabama #theocrats #IVF
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https://popular.info/p/trumps-pick-for-chair-of-the-republican

Trump's pick for chair of the Republican Party opposes "the destruction of human embryos"

Former president Trump has endorsed Michael Whatley, a corporate lobbyist and chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, as the next chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). "[M]y friend Michael Whatley should be the RNC’s next leader," Trump said in a

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