NEW SCOTUS DECISION IS HUGE BLOW TO RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES

US Supreme Court Building, Washington, DC

The anti-discrimination decision handed-down in June, 2020 was 
a surprise rebuke to American religious conservatives, who 
were counting on the court to do exactly the opposite of what 
it ended up doing. 

To their shock, the high court extended protections for gay, lesbian and trans workers under federal civil rights law.

                    Has the hammer come down on religious
                    conservatives' desire to enshrine their "right"                                            to discriminate, according to their interpretation 
                    of their faith?

In a brilliant 15-minute dissection of what the decision means, 
and how it influences other cases, as well as policies of the Trump administration, Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti 
of  the show, Rising, on The Hill, analyze the court's action:

                      Links to related articles:

CONSERVATIVES WERE ALREADY LOSING ON GAY RIGHTS

SCOTUS CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY IS PRECARIOUS

GOP BACKS SCOTUS LGBT DECISION AFTER CONSERVATIVE BLOWBACK

RELIGIOUS RIGHT LAMENTS COURT'S RULING, BUT LOOKS AHEAD

GORSUCH DRAWS SURPRISE, ANGER WITH LGBTQ DECISION

CONSERVATIVES MELT DOWN AFTER GORSUCH'S EMBRACE OF LGBTQ RIGHTS


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IS GOD RACIST?

                         ARTICLE  EXCERPT

"God ain’t good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us. As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god. As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men."

                                         Link to Article:

         America's Racist God

RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM STIFLES PERSONAL GROWTH INTO RESPONSIBLE ADULTHOOD

Does Religious Fundamentalism serve to 

KEEP  large numbers

 of people  IMMATURE?

                                       How much does Religious Fundamentalism teach                                        kids to HATE, with justification?

                       Are adults like this, the eventual                          result of Fundamentalist upbringing?

Link:
FUNDAMENTALISTS' MASS-IMMATURITY DIVIDES AND ENDANGERS US ALL



                                                                VIDEO

                                      Extremist Fundamentalism, as it is sometimes                               taught in America:  VIDEO

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                                                   Must this ...

                                                   Turn into this ...   ?

LINK:
How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain


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Modern "Christian America" is partly a Corporate Creation (VIDEO)

The Christian Impact on American Politics was at least partly created by, and largely serves, Conservative/GOP politics. How was this connection established? (video link):

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (w/ Kevin Kruse) 

"Princeton Professor and author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, explains how Christian America is rooted in the corporate reaction against the New Deal. How corporations hired ministers to help destroy the New Deal. What is Christian libertarianism? How “The Family” was founded and was rooted in the corporations war against labor. Why Dwight Eisenhower accepted and even expanded the New Deal while embracing the language of the religious right. The National Prayer Breakfast and “God’s law” coming before America’s laws. How Ronald Reagan completed the counter revolution and why the movement is alive and well in the modern Republican Party…."

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Prosperity Gospel Is War on the Poor

"Many of the poor are more willing to place their faith in the lottery or prosperity gospel than in the tarnished legend of the American Dream"

Link:

 Kareem Abdul Jabbar Slams Prosperity Gospel

     "Without faith in the government to help lift the poor out of poverty or prevent the middle class from slipping away, desperate and frightened people seek help in the supernatural of religion or in the supernatural odds of the lottery (odds of winning on a single ticket are 1 in 175 million). It’s hard not to be sympathetic.
       Americans have always had difficulty reconciling the lofty pursuit of spiritual enlightenment with the worldly hunger for material prosperity, especially if the former rejects the latter. We want to win, even if winning means we lose something even more valuable not tangible because our fame-mongering, social-media-driven culture tells us we haven’t won unless everyone else acknowledges it. (If someone does a good deed in the forest and no one’s around, is it still a good deed? Not anymore.) But how does one keep score in the spirituality game? According to the purveyors of prosperity gospel, your friends and neighbors will know how righteous you are by the size of your bank account and the make of your car.
       In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, he says, “And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also” (Matthew 5:40). The coat was considered to be a shirt while the cloak was a crucial garment to protect against the elements. Combined with Jesus’ admonishment to turn the other cheek when struck, we see a teaching that is establishing the basis for Christianity: Tend to what is permanent (the soul) over what is temporary (material goods). To expect an earthly reward other than purity of mind would go against these teachings. Yet those pimping the prosperity gospel are preaching the opposite."

Kareem Abdul Jabbar ---- A man as honest and insightful in life as he was athletically-gifted in his spectacular career.

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Are Dominionists Pushing America Toward Their Vision Of Apocalypse?

Apocalyptic Millennialism----A Dominionist Obsession Of The Religious Right

1st -- Think About:  Officials involved with Corporations, Federal officials working with such varied issues of national concern as America's pending Iran Treaty (as of April, 2015), Israel Policy, Russia policy, Nuclear Weapons, Military Command, Global Climate  Change, Fossil-Fuel Policy, and Pollution Laws. Locally, inspectors, law enforcement and other city and state government officials, and others,  key to the operation of our society.

Then -- Consider:  Are Dominionists, as a percentage of the population, culturally embedded within both Government and the private sector, and scattered through varying areas of The Military, State Department, EPA and numerous other important regulatory agencies, and even the court system, letting their "Biblically-foreseen" End-Of-The-World beliefs influence their performance as business employees or designated Public Servants? 

 

Article Excerpt:                                                                                               "Apocalypticism: The belief in an approaching confrontation, cataclysmic event, or transformation of epochal proportion, about which a select few have forewarning so they can make appropriate preparations. From a Greek root word suggesting unveiling hidden information or revealing secret knowledge about unfolding human events. The dualist or demonized version involves a final show-down struggle between absolute good and absolute evil. In Christianity there are competing apocalyptic prophetic traditions based on demonization or liberation. Central to Christianity, the tradition also exists in Judaism, Islam, and other religions and secular belief structures. Believers can be passive or active in anticipation; and optimistic or pessimistic about the outcome. Sometimes used similarly to the term millenarianism.

 Millennialism: A sense of expectation that a significant epochal transformation is imminent, marking either the end of a thousand year period, or signal its beginning, or both. Two major forms of millennialist response are passive waiting versus activist intervention. Can involve varying degres of apocalypticism. In Christianity, the idea that the Second Coming of Christ marks a thousand year period."

Link:
Pushing Towards The Apocalypse? 

Link:
41% of American Adults Believe World Now in the “End Times”, according to poll 

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For some,  Apocalypse = Money...
 

Milking  Apocalyptic Fear$, for profit
Conservative talk show host  Glenn Beck announced on his radio show in June, 2013 that "we are living in Biblical times" and added "we are at the end".

                                                 Exploiter of fear, Glenn Beck

 Meanwhile, Beck has, for years on his show, Hawked gold investments as a hedge for average people in coming desperate times.

 

Condemning America's ‘Moral Decay’ Is An Old Game 

Link:

An Old Game 

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Dominionists Re-Write American History To Serve Their Theocratic Agenda

Dominionists  and Christian Revisionists

  Alter  and  Falsify 

US  History

 
====Dominionists have a desperate desire to re-write US History in a highly Christianized new image====


Excerpt:
"A running refrain in the revisionist narrative is that somehow the original intention of God and the Founding Fathers has been thwarted by some combination of liberals, judicial tyrants, the ACLU, secular humanists, and more. This notion, which seems silly to some, is tremendously powerful in the context of the conservative Christian subculture. It asserts that "the Christians," (however one may define Christians), are the intended rulers of the nation, because that's what God, the Founding Fathers, and by implication, the Constitution, sought to accomplish.
It is a powerful piece of political and religious mythology that feeds into another powerful myth - that Christians are persecuted in the United States by the very forces that have thwarted God's plan for America. The effect is to make people feel that something has been unjustly, unrighteously taken from them - and that that something must be "restored" or "reclaimed." The Christian Right's Jamestown event [April, 2007, see below link marked ****] captured this sentiment." 
 
LINK: 
History Is Powerful ---- Why the Christian Right Distorts History and Why it Matters

****Link:
The Assemby 2007---Jamestown propaganda event put on by Religious Right
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