Narcissism- One Of The Many Evil Hallmarks Of Woke Progressive Ideology
Along with atheism, devotion to hypersexualization, hatred of American ideals, an insatiable desire for socialism, and an irrational love for the Green Bay Packers
Sure you can…unless you have to use both hands…and then you might have a future in porn….
It would be a great idiocy not to take fools seriously because fools have the ability to ruin everything even if they have no other abilities!
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I love it when fundamentalist Christians are so sure of their holiness and purity that they can’t fathom that their reality may not be the ONE and ONLY reality.
As a godless, atheistic, amoral Liberal- at least in the eyes of the American Taliban- I’m pretty well convinced that my reality is at least as valid as that of, say, Fox News Channel’s Rachel Campos-Duffy. Of course, her Imaginary Friend (at least as I see it) means that she believes everyone else is straight-up heathens heading straight to Hell. I don’t have a problem with that assessment because we all know what opinions are like…and hers means nothing to me.
And even if I am destined for Hell, I’ll have the best stories to tell.
Republican presidential joke candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who is hilariously polling above Chris Christie and Tim Scott, recently pledged that he would let his faith guide him if elected president, which will never happen. (Famous last words.) This is pathetic pandering that he spun into the typical rightwing smear against supposed godless liberals who don’t reference religion as much as Republicans, a party that twice nominated Donald Trump and will probably do so a third time. They stick with him more consistently than Trump does with his wives.
The hosts on "Fox & Friends Sunday" added their own evangelical nonsense to Ramaswamy’s gross comments. Taking the lead in religious bigotry, Rachel Campos-Duffy claimed liberals are obsessed with boring old Earth in the here and now while conservatives are focused on the wonderful imaginary world that lies beyond.
I can only speak for myself, but I prefer to focus on the world of the here and now because it’s the only one I can see, hear, feel, and touch. Since I don’t believe in the Christian God or any of Christianity’s artificial constructs, as far as I’m concerned, there is no “wonderful imaginary world that lies beyond.”
Because it’s IMAGINARY.
I don’t know what happens after I die, and I’m not going to worry about it because, as a late friend once said, “BECAUSE I’LL BE FUCKING DEAD!” That’s my take on it. If you believe differently, then good on you. I’ll do me, you do you, and we’ll all get along just fine.
Right?
Youbetcha.
Well, it turns out the fundies don’t quite see things that way.
As someone who lives in an evidence-based world, I prefer that someone who makes claims about something, particularly the hereafter, present evidence to support those claims. I don’t consider “All you need is faith in God!!” to be sufficient evidence that there will be 72 virgins waiting for me in Heaven.
Oops…sorry, wrong religion. But I do like the “72 virgins” part.
“For them, where we live right now, this place, Earth is it,” she said. “So everything’s on the line here for them. They think, as you said, they can perfect this Earth. Those of us who have faith don’t believe that, and we believe how we act here determines where we go after. And so we got to behave.”
Her primitive “don’t anger sky god” morality isn’t even internally consistent. If she believes the faithful must “behave” in order to snag a “skip the line” pass in Heaven, wouldn’t that also include how we treat each others on Earth? Right-wingers demonstrate nothing but contempt for the vast majority of God’s supposed creations. They're obsessed with drag queen brunches while global warming is accelerating. I'd invite drag queens over to dance in my backyard if it kept my plants from frying during the next heat dome….
Most liberals don’t want to “perfect” the Earth — that’s another right-wing straw man. We'd just like to leave the place in remotely habitable condition for our descendants. Republicans want their kids to dodge the estate tax, and we want our kids to avoid breathing smoke during “wildfire season.” The Christian God is a documented asshole but I don’t think another major extinction event — one that includes us shaved apes — is a mandatory part of God’s immediate plan.
Campos-Duffy continued, "The ends justify the means is sort of the rules for radicals. That’s not how Christians act.”
Really? So how do Christians act?
The Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, Manifest Destiny, the French Wars of Religion, witch hunts ... I mean, there's almost no point in correcting her because she's so obviously full of crap.
I mean, seriously, y’all, more humans have been killed in the name of religion throughout human history than for any other reason.
Yeah, the Christian God really IS a documented asshole. Either that or the Christian God is relatively benign, and the people who’ve taken up His defense are registered, ruthless assholes. I think both can be true simultaneously.
Religion as a concept is a very positive thing. At their most basic, virtually all faith traditions can be whittled down to love, understanding, tolerance, acceptance, and peaceful co-existence. The adherents of faith traditions have butchered and bastardized faith traditions into brutal means of bludgeoning others into mute subjugation.
Christianity ceased to be about the teachings of Jesus Christ centuries ago when it became about conquest and political/economic/social/ideological domination of lands and peoples conquered by White European males. Study your history.
Islam long ago degraded into a system for enforcing the second-class status of women and authorizing the violent murder of non-believers.
Other religions have had similar violent and bloody histories intended to elevate one group of believers over others. All because one group felt their flavor of Imaginary Friend was vastly superior to all others.
It’s as if the ability to reason and think critically were de-emphasized by those who lacked the ability to do so.
“We’re made for religion,” she said, which is an absurd statement. Humans have brain stems and the capacity for reason. We are geared toward curiosity and asking questions that require more convincing answers than "a wizard did it."
“So if you don’t have a faith, whether it’s Hindu, Islam, Christianity, you’re going to create one. And it could be climate, or it could be yourself.”
Polls show that Democrats are not significantly less religious collectively than Republicans. (Although, Republicans are more certain in their religious views, which is consistent with their positions in general.) Look, Democrats aren’t a pack of raving narcissists. I’m an atheist, but I voted Joe Biden while far-right Catholic Campos-Duffy likely supported Trump — all the seven deadly sins stuffed into one grotesque package.
Campos-Duffy also dismisses giving a damn about the climate as some sort of wacko fake religion, when a spiritual connection to nature is a key theme in many ancient religions. Arguably, living in service to the observable world around you is more practical and noble than worshipping some unhinged mob boss posing as a deity.
You can only accept that “we’re made for religion” if you believe worshipping trees, water, or an imaginary sky being is superior to trying to achieve a scientific understanding of the world.
Of course, it IS much simpler and easier to ascribe a spiritual or religious reason to a phenomenon than to try to achieve a rigorous scientific understanding. That takes observation, knowledge, and the willingness to discard closely held theories if evidence disproves them. Faith only requires that you believe regardless of what happens.
So why wouldn’t people default to religion? It’s a much simpler intellectual journey, requiring only that one sacrifice what intellect one possesses on the altar of faith and subjugation.
Of course, suppose your faith fails you when attempting to find an explanation. In that case, you can always trot out some egghead from Notre Dame to tell your viewers that Liberalism is deeply rooted in narcissism and psycopathy.
I always LOVE hearing someone with x numbers of exalted degrees tell me that my worldview and rejection of organized religion is the product of profound mental illness.
Yep, nothing like a bit o’ gratuitous character assassination to build up the masses and help them feel superior to them there godless Libruls, eh? Indeed.
If you’ll excuse me, I’m supposed to spend my afternoon tearing down statues and trying to erase history. It’s what we godless Libruls cursed with the “woke” progressive mind virus do for entertainment these days. I mean, with the English Premier League on hiatus until August, I have to do something to keep myself entertained, no?
It’s either that or spending my weekends throwing ripe avocadoes at Packers fans….
