The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy
Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism
In a case centering on wrongful-death claims for frozen embryos that were accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic, the Alabama supreme court ruled last Friday that frozen embryos are “children” under state law.
As a result, several Alabama in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics are ceasing services, afraid to store or destroy any embryos.
The underlying issue is whether government can interfere in the most intimate aspects of people’s lives – not only barring people from obtaining IVF services but also forbidding them from entering into gay marriage, utilizing contraception, having out-of-wedlock births, ending their pregnancies, changing their genders, checking out whatever books they want from the library, and worshipping God in whatever way they wish (or not worshipping at all).
All these private freedoms are under increasing assault from Republican legislators and judges who want to impose their own morality on everyone else. Republicans are increasingly at war with America’s basic separation of church and state.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/23/republicans-american-theocracyOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
It's exactly the same. But because it's their god it's somehow different, but it's not.
Its the same God, though, isn't it? Just their book?
From my understanding of the various religions and offshoots, yes, it is in theory the same God. They also feature the same saints and holy figures across the 3 big ones though in the Quran Jesus is a saint or similar but not our savior or the son of God and God in the same package, etc.
Any of these Christians at any rate.
Have you seen the south Park multiparter about the atheist otters?
Abrahamic religions 101:
Judaism religion v1.0 Christianity religion v2.0 Islam religion v3.0
There is literally no way of knowing.
I don't mean some scientific objective same God.
They are both based off Abrahamic origins. They literally believe in the same God. They just disagree in a lot of interpretations and how to respect and worship him.
There is, actually. You see, since men wrote all the books, thankfully they’ve made it clear in the Quran that it’s a sequel, same-universe cannon.
Ironically, since we know from the literature, we do literally have a way to know
Oh.. yea. My bad. :D
Considering the 3 big ones feature the same cast of saints and holy figures, I'd say it's more likely than not that it is the same God.
Some dude named Dave knew, but he died without telling anyone in 1973 🤷
Damn it Dave!
Yeah, he was a total dick. He also heated fish in the break room microwave.
We know it's the same god the same way we know it's the same Emperor Palpaptine in Revenge of the Sith, Return of the Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker.
Well you see, Sharia Law is imposed by brown people, so God hates it. Jesus was white, American, and a registered Republican, so God loves the brand of extremist Christian theocracy the GOP will bring upon us.
/s
Don't forget 2A and supply side
Nice that people are starting to notice, I suppose.
Better late to the party than a no show I suppose.
When was the last time people were in doubt about that? Conservatives have been trying to pass laws that affect everyone based on their confused religious moralism for decades. Things like “blue laws” (banning sales of alcohol on Sunday) are connected to Christians trying to impose their religious ideas on people. Or the idea that someone’s testimony or oath can’t be believed if not sworn on a bible.
Did you ever see that one politician who swore up and down that America is a Christian nation because you swear into office on the Bible? Complete deer in headlights look when the interviewer explained that the Bible was an option, not a requirement.
Media keeps telling me how moderate Haley is.
And always trying to rationalize it as not religious. Fucking maddening.
The people that want a theocracy want it based on their religion and their interpretation of that religion. This way they can present what they want as what god wants and that gives them complete control over you since you have to obey god.
Hail Satan!
And look how these purported Christians interpret to their advantage in their day to day lives. I know real Christians. They're among my closest friends and family.
This isn't Christian theocracy. It's demonic theocracy.
There was a speaker at CPAC who just said that they’re trying to make the US a Christian nation by force, even if it means abandoning democracy.
Everything someone talks a about a Christian nations, all I can think of is Emo Philips' joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78
Can I get a link to this video?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/02/23/jack-posobiec-cpac-remarks-democracy-cnc-vpx.cnn
Talibangelicals
Excuse me wtf
How do they square that with supporting the death penalty?
Dogmatic ideology holding contradictory positions is a feature, not a bug. Break down whatever instincts for logic might exist, and people will believe anything.
Frank Zappa 1986
Full
Nah, no one could’ve seen it coming. There’s nothing we can do it, it’s caught everyone completely off guard.
Wow, those 3 other people are horrible. "Permissiveness"?
American Taliban, or a fascist theocracy. They believe that inequality based on some mythological identity is not just acceptable but morally correct.
They don't just want a theocracy; they're well on their way to making it happen.
They want a dictatorship. They are just using theocracy as a stepping stone.
The Republican party
wants to turnis actively turning America.into a theocracyThey're using religion as their path to dictatorship. Really only Catholics were in open opposition to abortion until conservatives made it an evangelical talking point. They found a way to control women and then found the audience to market it to. Now they caught that car and have to find another target for their pack of dogs.
And let them keep enslaving innocent people?
Should’ve done something with the south alright, but it’s not letting them go.
When Sherman got to the ocean we should have just pointed him in another direction and let him bounce around the South for a while. Like one big Confederate-cleansing Roomba.
Fun fact, after the famous March to the Sea, Sherman headed back north, cutting an equally destructive path through South Carolina.
Shouldn't have let the confederate leadership go on living after the war. Arguments can be made for average soldiers since many were drafted against their wills and/or propagandized into their beliefs, but an example needed to be made of the leaders and it wasn't.
"Oh, you want to break away from the country in order to keep slavery going? Well please stand in front of that brick wall over there. Runner-up trophies will be distributed imminently and in an orderly fashion. Here's your blindfold because we'd like it to be a surprise. Would you like a cigarette while you wait?"
Rename it "lower north"
Duh
Always has been.
Republicans also want to bring back 19th century Company Towns. Then, they will fill them with obedient workers, who they can pay as little as they want and abuse as much as they like.
This is why they overturned Roe vs Wade and they're going after contraception next. They need citizen's to breed.
They need citizen's what to breed?
Their apostrophes!
Don't worry, I'm sure that theocracy will merely be a road bump to a leftist Utopia.
Everything is always doom and gloom and fire and brimstone with Republicans. Apparently that appeals to a lot of people.
Yes, they do. Not just since yesterday.
And they’ll probably get it seeing as the new democratic policy is to capitulate to conservatives.
And alienate votes they need to swing battleground states. I swear they're trying to lose.
May the lord open.