Has the Republican Party Become a Religion?

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    What percentage of scientist would you say are “religious”?
     
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    Bold by me.

    So you believe that you should have the right to dictate how someone practices their religion/non-religion?
     
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    Its getting there. Ben Sasse has said it better than anyone. Anyway, Not one GOP POTUS from the past or any of their cabinet members endorses Trump. That speaks volumes
     
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    his believers that attacked the capital said he was like Jim Jones
     
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    Except in the rest of the world of course. Don't impose your specifically American habits upon Conservatives elsewhere.

    As for the accusation of intolerance ... LOL. A perfect example of those in glass houses throwing stones :D
     
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    Every effort made to try to position Lefties as saintly intellectuals who dabble in the arts, not realising all of that adds up to WHITE and PRIVILEGED. Man that's funny :D

    Pro Tip: if your philosophy is so lacking in internal consistency that you make fundamental blunders like the above, it is in fact no better than a religion. Ideologies are never internally consistent, and ideology is behind every faith and bad political idea.
     
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    For the black and hispanic vote, of course.
     
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    So they hate Muslims, then?
     
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    Oh yeah? Can you point me to a few examples of liberal comedians commenting on the silliness of Islam?
     
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    Ah. Another example of how the (D)ishonest prey upon the emotyons of the ignorant.
     
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    Very few so called "christians" ( and I say that word with all the contempt it deserves. I have literally zero respect for religion ) actually do almost nothing they claim their christ asks of them.

    People who drink wine on Sundays and pretend it's the blood of a 2000 year old god, really cant be expected to behave rationally though.
     
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    Jim Jeffries
     
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    Your not part of "the vast majority".
     
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    We should have the right to make sure your actually practicing your religion.
     
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    And? Nice anecdotes. My brother owns a screen business in Tampa and is rich. He voted for Trump, like many affluent types did.
     
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    No, it's to participate in the LEGAL governmental process.

    What is yours, to murder people who disagree with you politically?
     
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    Is that not what I have been saying? The Republican Party has become the party of conservative Christian religious expression. There is little daylight between CPAC, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Republican Party.
     
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    A blue collar business. How are you disputing what I said.

    In fact, the charge that the appeal of the Trump is based on racial and homophobic hatreds, is bolstered by the fact that many Trump supporters are well to do. Thus invalidating their claims that their opposition to Obama was based on economic issues, especially considering that many of them did quite well under Obama’s capable leadership.
     
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    Quite possibly. When you order troops to enforce your will, there are sure to be those who will fight back.
     
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    That is completely contrary to what I have been saying.
     
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    You have yet to prove that you exist. I have asked time and time again. Yet, still, all you do is deflect.
     
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    I think that he would agree John Stuart Mill on this subject.
     
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    So monitoring other people's private lives is a thing now? As a 'right'? Hell, most people today couldn't even enumerate the existing 'rights', much less even know how to categorize the invasion of privacy you are thing you are promoting.

    I'll pass. You do your thing, I'll do mine, and all is good if it harms none, consenting adults and all that.
     
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    I think, in fairness, you need to separate the Trumper part from the rest of GOP. Rush and Fox fit right in with the Trumper part (that obviously existed before Trump). But I'm sure that there are honest Republicans that wouldn't have a bar of Rush, Fox and now Trump, and are hoping that they might get their party back one day.
     
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    Growing up I attended a Catholic school. Every Sunday, my family went to church. Mostly we went to the Catholic church that was associated with my school, but we also regularly attended a Baptist Church. During the summer my brothers would often attend a Baptist day camp. It didn’t take long to discover a rather glaring difference between the two religions.

    Whenever they volunteered us kids to do things, the Catholics always had us doing things like taking food boxes to the needy, helping elderly and handicapped people with their yard chores, entertaining assisted care facility residents, cleaning the trash out of an empty lot and transforming it into a playground. Those kinds of things. With Baptists it was more like we either had to go door to door delivering flyers advertising the church or fundraising for the church. The nuns taught us that we got to heaven by doing good works, by uplifting the dignity of the downtrodden. Big on the things they would repeatedly tell us, was that what we did to the least of us, we did also to Jesus. The Baptists had a different take. They told us that we got to heaven by worshipping God and spreading the word. It really didn’t matter all that much what you did, as long as you always prayed to God/Jesus and asked for forgiveness.

    It comes as no surprise to me that people like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are devout Catholics. Or that the core of the Republican base is mostly Evangelical Christians.
     

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