"I speak this into existence..."
That's the kind of bat guano that he couches and says, and the buzz-words that cuckoo bird was spewing...dominionist nonsense and irrationality. The scary thing to me is that society continues to pay lip service to this crap. These people are utter lunatics, unfit to be parenting (clearly) and better kept on a short leash in public....in their churches and homes (when NOT terrorizing their children that is), they can be as batshit insane as they want...but this fantasy land nonsense has no place in the 21st century public square.
1) I posit that 70-90% of the people who are church goers, if you spoke to them alone and off the record would come clean - they no more believe this crap than they believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. They are members of a club, with a special clubhouse, secret handshakes and initiation rituals, but its still just a club...if 70-90% of them were TRUE believers, TRUE practisioners of the faith, the world would have far less suffering, want and needless death in it. Bangladesh would not be sinking, Antarctica and the Arctic would not be melting because they would understand that nature is not here to be subdued and lorded over by man, but rather man is a part of nature and bound to its fate as surely as the planet revolves on an axis and around the sun.
2) The ONLY redeeming feature of organized religion - AT ALL - is that it offers people a tent pole to rally around and form communal relationships that are harder to secure in a strictly secular world. Harder, but absolutely NOT impossible. Religion facilitates a sense of community and belonging that is vital and in many cases essential for humans to feel connected to each other beyond our biological families.
3) Putting these lunatics in power would be the worst possible thing we could allow in the coming elections and would further endanger the human society that we are barrelling towards a cliff even now.
There is no way to possess "truth"....only a never ending journey to seek it, to refine our understanding of it and to once more challenge our limited capacity to see it at all. Those who claim to possess it are, without exception, lying. Period. Full Stop.
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