Tag: Human rights

America, Nazism and the Christian right

Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?

It’s awful to watch the USA’s decline from across the pond. There’s a real sense of history being made as the country’s fall begins. It’s like watching the Barbarian sack of Rome or, more appropriately, perhaps the beginning of the end of the German weimar republic between the wars.

Elected on the back of countless sermons by Christian nationalists and white supremacists the President seems determined to follow the fundamentalist ‘Heritage foundation’ far right ‘Project 2025’ agenda. This 900 page document covers everything from education to services, healthcare to the ‘right’ kind of Christianity. It’s a blueprint for authoritarian dictatorship straight out of Margaret Lockwood’s ‘A handmaids tale’.

Just like Hitler post 1933, Trump is dismantling law enforcement, removing protection for minorities, sacking prosecutors and investigators and enabling vigilante attacks against political opponents.
He’s attacking legal infrastructure and putting party faithful in key civil positions that should be apolitical.

He’s drawing lines against ally nations and others and even claiming foreign land as America’s. Is this a modern punt for leibensraum?

Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?

The world might just be about to find out!

I’m on ‘The Unshaw podcast’!

My discussion about faith, atheism, mental health, evolution and nursing with Robert Shaw

The Unshaw podcast discusses faith, atheism, religiosity and a whole lot more besides. In this episode Robert Shaw (no, not THAT Robert Shaw) and I discuss mental health, faith and deconversion, politics and even evolutionary psychology.

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Do you also unto me

You say that your morality comes from that book you read.

“Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, do you also unto me”

(Matthew 25:41-46)

You say that your morality comes from that book you read, its pages stuffed with guidance for the living and the dead. But if that’s true then why do you ignore so very much? What other moral guide informs your choices as you clutch your pearls and criticise, condemn your fellow men and hang on to your riches instead of helping them?

Did not Jesus say to sell it all, give proceeds to the needy? Conveniently you forget that part, it’s all so very seedy.

You focus on the Bible bits that let you judge your neighbours, judging trans men for their lack of tits and trans women get no favours. They can’t even use a public loo without explaining it to you.

You oppose sex education but insist girls go full term after a night of uneducated enthusiasm when her ova met his sperm. Some of you even shun the girl to raise her child alone. Is that really what your Jesus wants whose guidance you have overthrown.

You long for resurrection when you say I’ll go to Hell

But if your Bible tells the truth then you’ll be there as well.

God’s genocide

many on the right support Zionist apartheid – because the Christian right insist that God gave that land to Israel and they command an awful lot of votes and even more money around the world.

Now then. How do you feel about genocide? How do you think the God of Abraham, the Bronze age God of war feels about genocide? More importantly, how do you imagine those Christians who think the Bible is the infallible word of God feel about the abuses committed by the state of Israel today toward Palestinians in the West Bank?

This is why so many on the right support Zionist apartheid – because the Christian right insist that God gave that land to Israel and they command an awful lot of votes and even more money around the world. This is not to say that all Israelis or even all Jews are Zionists but those that are seem to be calling the shots with devastating effect upon the Palestinians.

This isn’t defence, it’s invasion and it’s genocide. This is the unchanging God of Abraham commanding the outright destruction of entire populations, including, presumably innocent children and pregnant women.

So don’t give me any pro-life crap about the value of unborn babies before the Lord. Your God is a war criminal, a brutal, capricious, sadistic and genocidal torturer. And the Christians who follow him into defending the abuses of the Zionists are no better.

People have rights

We shouldn’t attack or hurt people for their beliefs

Ideas are up for grabs but people have rights. We shouldn’t attack or hurt people for their beliefs. They have a right to hold the beliefs they do. It’s unfortunate that so many Christians think that only applies to them. The rest of us can go to Hell where the God of love and mercy will see to it that we’re tortured forever.