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!

Being atheist

I’m an atheist. That doesn’t mean that I claim to know the answers to life, the universe and everything.

I’m an atheist. That doesn’t mean that I claim to know the answers to life, the universe and everything. It simply means that I don’t believe such answers, should they exist, would involve a God or Gods. That’s because I don’t believe in any God or Gods.

If you want to know about my actual worldview, philosophy or ideology you will need to ask me because, frankly my atheism doesn’t explain anything more than is contained in the first paragraph above.

From my perspective those who preach or prosyletise about Gods fall into one of 3 categories. They are either…

  1. Deceitful,
  2. Gullible,
  3. Both.

Either way they’re not fit to lead.