Christians fail to see the irony. How they view the satanic display at the capital building is how most of us view it when we see federal and state buildings displaying Christianity. It’s either all fine or none of it is. Don’t want to be angry? Then keep religion out of politics!
That was more due to social decline after Rome collapsed and Europe degenerated into dozens of warring statelets. Not all of them were Christian-- the Nordics and Germanic tribes adopted Christianity centuries later.
The worst religious violence was during the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. That’s when you got state terror enforcing the orthodoxy du jour, whether Catholic or Protestant, generally by burning people. And the Inquisition started in the late 15th century too, attacking victims of forced conversions.
And quite a lot of our modern image of Satan was invented towards the end of that period, when Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
Exactly. It’s a gigantic middle finger to anyone not in their little book club. The gaslighting they do about it - batting their eyes and saying, “but this country was founded on Judeo-xtian principles”, etc - is just icing on the cake for them.
"but this country was founded on Judeo-xtian principles”
And what a filthy lie that is. Most of the Founders were deists, and they despised organized religion. Thomas Jefferson made an edited version of the New Testament with all the miracles and superstitions bullshit removed. It was a thin volume.
Thank you! I always like to inform xtianists about this. :)
When they go on about how how this country “was founded on xtianity”, I ask them if anyone told Jefferson this “fact” of theirs. When they are like…huh? I tell them about his version of “the” bible, which without question would have been considered a “heresy” he could have been murdered over in other parts of the planet, and during his lifetime.
I also like how these people like to try Thomas Paine erasure; probably because the likes of Teddy Roosevelt called him a “dirty little atheist” - it got even weirder when the likes of Glenn Beck - who is in the LDS - tried to appropriate Paine - I was totally confused by that one, but hey, these guys are great at rewriting history and trying to appropriate things…
Christians fail to see the irony. How they view the satanic display at the capital building is how most of us view it when we see federal and state buildings displaying Christianity. It’s either all fine or none of it is. Don’t want to be angry? Then keep religion out of politics!
All they see is something foreign, which therefore must be destroyed with extreme prejudice.
Once you brainwash someone into believing in invisible sky wizards, you can mobilize them for any sort of hate and unreasonable ridiculousness.
That’s why we had the dark ages
That was more due to social decline after Rome collapsed and Europe degenerated into dozens of warring statelets. Not all of them were Christian-- the Nordics and Germanic tribes adopted Christianity centuries later.
The worst religious violence was during the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. That’s when you got state terror enforcing the orthodoxy du jour, whether Catholic or Protestant, generally by burning people. And the Inquisition started in the late 15th century too, attacking victims of forced conversions.
And quite a lot of our modern image of Satan was invented towards the end of that period, when Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
Oh, they get it. That’s why they put those displays up in the first place.
Exactly. It’s a gigantic middle finger to anyone not in their little book club. The gaslighting they do about it - batting their eyes and saying, “but this country was founded on Judeo-xtian principles”, etc - is just icing on the cake for them.
And what a filthy lie that is. Most of the Founders were deists, and they despised organized religion. Thomas Jefferson made an edited version of the New Testament with all the miracles and superstitions bullshit removed. It was a thin volume.
Thank you! I always like to inform xtianists about this. :)
When they go on about how how this country “was founded on xtianity”, I ask them if anyone told Jefferson this “fact” of theirs. When they are like…huh? I tell them about his version of “the” bible, which without question would have been considered a “heresy” he could have been murdered over in other parts of the planet, and during his lifetime.
I also like how these people like to try Thomas Paine erasure; probably because the likes of Teddy Roosevelt called him a “dirty little atheist” - it got even weirder when the likes of Glenn Beck - who is in the LDS - tried to appropriate Paine - I was totally confused by that one, but hey, these guys are great at rewriting history and trying to appropriate things…