Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the veritable flood of religiosity all over our air waves as well as online? Not that this wasn’t apparent before, but now there are people coming out of the woodwork invoking their evangelical or catholic dogmas and of course, damning those of us that are either not very spiritual, ,or like me, atheist. All of it has to do with being a patriot and of course, anyone that doesn’t believe in god, cannot be a patriot.
Continue reading
I’ve been asked recently, what atheists think about this conflict in Iran. As far as I know, atheists follow the general public when it comes to any public policy, foreign or domestic. Yes, atheists tend to be more liberal but that doesn’t make them any less patriotic when it comes to our government committing the military to kinetic action anywhere in the world. After all these years of me saying that atheists are no different than the general public, with one exception, it seems strange for me to have to continue to explain atheism.
Continue reading
Does anyone else but me find it funny, or at least interesting that there’s a battle going on right now between…Christians? That’s right, it’s the Christian Zionists against the non-Zionist Christians. Why is this? There is a strain within the country, if you haven’t noticed, that believe we’re in this action with Iran due mainly to the influence of the Israeli government. That’s right, the Israeli government convinced President Trump and his inner circle (some very smart people) that the threat from Iran was imminent. Now the conversation has devolved into what is the meaning of imminent? And why is this a fight between Christians?
Continue reading
Anyone notice the absence of Tulsi Gabbard since the beginning of the conflict with Iran(I’ve heard we’re not supposed to call this a “war”)? As Director of National Intelligence, she’s been noticeably absent within the Trump administration. At every possible meeting with reporters where we hear from, not only the President, but Secretaries of War and State as well. Not even a photo of her with the President at any recent security meeting. Curious? Has Tulsi submitted her resignation over this military extravagance? A quick search, especially since one of her deputies, Joe Kent, resigned today over his objection to this action, shows a very brief, tepid statement:”Trump’s the boss, he decides threats, we just give him info.” Which says a lot without saying anything.
Continue reading
Read that again and ask yourself what I’m referring to? It’s what’s going on in the online world of podcasters and political/social commenters and how our own president is siding with the neocon freaks of what I thought were yesteryear. This is a president that condemned the warmongers of the past but since his reelection, it seems that this is all of what his agenda is about. Consider the bombing of Iran’s nuclear capability, the bombing of Yemen(which he highly criticized Biden for doing), recently, attacking and kidnapping a rogue leader in South America, to the current action in Iran which has killed how many U.S. service members? The wounded is over 200. And we have no troops on the ground. Yet.
And our president is siding with the warmongers of his party and the 5th columnists on air that are not America First, but Israel First. He is now defining MAGA as anything he says it is, whenever he says it. So it’s no longer about America or Americans, but a cult of personality. I’m a conservative and I see a huge red flag here when our leader openly criticizes and attempts to delegitimize some voices over the bloodlust cacophony of others.
I’m done for today. Discuss among yourselves.