• Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    You gotta remember, despite everything we say, everything we’ve written, the laws in place, the rapidly growing atheism, the US is a theocracy first and foremost. The religion is just as important as the economy, employment rate, or the opinions of the ruling class.

    • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      The only thing that has really kept religion in check in this country is, ironically, their enmity toward each other due, ostensibly, to differences in eschatology. That has melted away as they have come to the realization that they are in danger of becoming irrelevant. Fortunately, the laity is extremely stupid and easy to manipulate (religion will do that to you) and have no idea what they really believe or what the differences are, so they are being led as if they are more monolithic by focusing their worship on what they all agree they love: money. They are also too stupid to realize that this is ironic.

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      4 hours ago

      So weird for one of the world’s youngest nations to hijack one of the world’s youngest religions from a place they so frequently fear, hate, and bomb.

      They really are just the plebeians of an empirical nation that never quite got to empirical level, unless your factor corporatisation of the society.

      And they accuse the English of not speaking English…