Another great article about Athena Salman, the AZ legislature and the decline of Christianity
Lord Snow Presides Over Arizona’s Complete Lawlessness. (#11)
June 20, 2017
by: Captain Cassidy
A new first has happened in America: an openly atheistic woman has been elected to state office. And it’s happened in the very deeply religious state of Arizona, of all places. Today Lord Snow Presides over another sign of Christianity’s coming decline.
When Liars-for-Jesus Gain Power Over Others.
As NPR tells us, something like 20% of Americans have no religious affiliation. But our elected officials are overwhelmingly religious. More than that, they are overwhelmingly Christian. The number of people who are not Christian is miniscule to say the least–9% or so. As of that NPR piece back in January, there was exactly one–ONE–elected official in the United States Congress who openly said he was not part of any religion.
Of course, that number doesn’t count the number of undeclared Nones, agnostics, and atheists serving in elected positions; one humanist group’s leader says there are 24 that her group knows of, but none are willing to openly declare their position. Just as we see in regular everyday life, “Christian love” is such a powerful, overwhelming force that people rightly fear the brutal
wrath of the religion’s many failed ambassadors!
Christianity has had a position of easy, unwarranted dominance in the United States for so long that it’s downright hilarious to hear any adherent of the religion even try to claim that they’re part of some persecuted minority in this country–and yet that is one of their favorite beliefs.
When the leaders of a broken system get real power in their grabby little hands, nothing but misery follows as they run roughshod over those they view as their inferiors. That’s the rule, and there are no exceptions–only dark secrets of abuse that are hidden, ignored, whitewashed, and covered up with varying amounts of effectiveness. When you start noticing the signs of a broken system within a group, your main question at that point should be how bad the abuse is, not whether there is any.
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You see, in Arizona the Christians there are getting very nervous about their religion’s continued loss of dominance. In a state that is a cesspit of drugs, lack of healthcare, and poor education, you see, the Republicans who overrun that state–who are, of course, overwhelmingly fundagelical Christians–demand a religious showboating exercise before they get down to denying people their rights, ripping children away from their parents, and destroying the lives of their black constituents. If they don’t get enough Jesus-talk, then they just can’t get up enough of an oppression-boner to work their wills upon those unfortunate enough to be in their power.
Some time ago, the Religious Right in charge of Arizona’s legislature displayed their laser-lock focus on what their constituents need from them by passing a law that demands that all invocations must be explicitly religious in nature by appealing specifically to some kind of “higher power.”
More:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rolltodisbelieve/2017/06/20/lord-snow-presides-arizona/
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