TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy 'people of faith are crucial' to protecting democracy: op-edwww.alternet.orgexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down143file-text
arrow-up1-36arrow-down1external-linkWhy 'people of faith are crucial' to protecting democracy: op-edwww.alternet.orgTokenBoomer@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoIt’s an opinion. I don’t know the authors intention. 70% of Americans identify as Christian, according to the census.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoPeople of faith provenly work against democracy on the daily. It’s a joke. Not an opinion.
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoI’m an atheist, so I don’t disagree with you. I abhor organized religion. But we need everyone who is anti-fascist to help. If we don’t work with them, despite differences, in the short term, we all lose in the long term.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoWe don’t need their kind of help. It comes at a cost of rights and freedoms. Which is not good for democracy.
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoWe don’t need their help with votes against fascism? That’s some cut off your nose to spite your face thinking.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThey’re not going to vote against fascism. That’s the point.
minus-squarePratai@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIf we are doomed without Christianity’s help… we were doomed before any of this ever started. The religious right will NEVER vote against oppression. And by the way- This is why op-editorials aren’t supposed to be taken as news.
It’s an opinion. I don’t know the authors intention. 70% of Americans identify as Christian, according to the census.
People of faith provenly work against democracy on the daily. It’s a joke. Not an opinion.
I’m an atheist, so I don’t disagree with you. I abhor organized religion. But we need everyone who is anti-fascist to help. If we don’t work with them, despite differences, in the short term, we all lose in the long term.
We don’t need their kind of help. It comes at a cost of rights and freedoms. Which is not good for democracy.
We don’t need their help with votes against fascism? That’s some cut off your nose to spite your face thinking.
They’re not going to vote against fascism. That’s the point.
Then we are doomed.
If we are doomed without Christianity’s help… we were doomed before any of this ever started. The religious right will NEVER vote against oppression.
And by the way- This is why op-editorials aren’t supposed to be taken as news.