It is not for me to tell you that *your* relationship with *your* god is flawed. But I do criticize "the others."

Thank you

Thank you

I don't need your thanks. I just need your pardon when I speak of Christians - I speak of the Evangelicals who are attempting to mix church and state. In memes, it's really hard to speak to "Evangelicals who are mixing church and state." instead of "Christians."

Again, meme warfare thrives on hate. There are psychology papers citing how it is popular to hate, and just like community worship and prayer, there is a bonding that occurs with others when you hate together. You find comradarie. I digress. Republicans often use the "The left can't meme" which is an extremely loaded statement on two fronts. Psychological warfare by intimidation, and psychological recruiting methods. The left cannot meme as effectively because our moral compass does not thrive so much on egoism; the self. Ours is more altruistic and community minded. As such, we check ourselves much more than the right does without even knowing it. We're too politically correct to meme. The trap is, the better we get at memeing, the more we lose our way.

The problem with this approach is that they're hoping to exploit the relativism paradox; "How does the tolerant tolerate the intolerant?" On paper, one would theorize that to be "Tolerant" you must permit the presence who are you opposite. In this, the intolerant will prey upon the weak of the tolerant and turn them to hate and assimilate them into their fear and hate mongering.

The time for the wakeup call for the left is to expel the intolerant from this country or the political stage. We do not tolerate intolerance.

Feel free to ask away at me, I don't mind at all. What I try to do is not offer my opinion on it to people that didn't ask.

First 12 years of life as Mormon. That's disturbing. Two years as... Some sort of baptist that I don't remember. THen 6 years as penecostal.

Gnosticism is my jam.
For me, the Bible doesn't really cover enough for me to just give it a thumbs-up pass "seems legit." Too many issues that don't resolve (beyond the typical tangible evidence augments belief.)

Equally, if you wanna hear what I think, you're welcome to pick my brain.

My Father was a Roman Catholic (being born in Scotland) and my Mother a Southern Baptist (being born in Florida) decided that my siblings and I would need to find our own way and never pressured us to go to church.

Now I am a huge fan of history (real history, not dramatized) and I studied religion due to it's impact on the world. I came away with the thinking that organized religion is just another form of government, but one were you have no voice. Yet God's greatest gift to man (according to the bible, so maybe it's made up?) was free will. Organized religion wants to take away that gift.

That's when I read about the Gnostics. While they were more about mysticism, they believed faith was between you and the creator, the church had no right to interfere. So of course the church wiped them out along with the anti-baptists. What was the anti-baptists hated for? They said you had to be an adult before you could be baptized. That you had to make a rational choice as a rational person. They had to go. (Fun fact, they didn't fight back because they wrongly believed Christians wouldn't harm Christians)