Fascism is not an exaggeration. It does not have to look like German fascism, or Italian fascism, or Spanish fascism. American fascism is uniquely American. It looks like MAGA. It looks like Project 2025. It looks like donald. It looks like Mike Johnson.
@@j19n7200 MAGA republicans support laws that criminalise certain "undesirable" people (usually LGBT+ people), laws that restrict people's personal freedom, support a person who wants to be a dictator, support laws that limit certain demographics' voting rights, and so much more. Project 2025 is basically a handbook on American fascism.
Whatever vestiges of religious belief I had left evaporated completely after witnessing the behaviour of these so-called 'christians'. I should thank them for opening my eyes. I'm 'woke' now.
Proud areligous person here. The last few years and having been with a SO who is Christian Nationalist were more than enough for me. Religion has done a great job of proving itself to be false.
A deep belief in an absurd myth with zero proof is not a rational or intelligent position. All because of the fear of death. Yet people vote for those who will affect the lives of others, based on that belief. As if some mythical higher power is a viable excuse for exclusion, hatred and many horrible deeds suffered on others.
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." - James Madison, 1803
Yet the “only one who can save America “….according to many insane Americans, happily takes the support of those who would change that. I mean, he can just suspend the constitution and all…
Many, if not most, atheists got there by searching for truth, so it shouldn't be that surprising. Kudos to you though, for not discounting the information due only to the source.
@@decibel333 I am massively disappointed with what passes for Christianity these days...my reading of the Bible turned me into a liberal...I can't support conservatism..no grace. I hear atheists sound more like the Bible than the obnoxiously loud theists. I'm just a searcher.
@@BrianPeloso-ln4ry "..my reading of the Bible turned me into a liberal..." Ah, so you used rosy cherry-picking glasses to do your reading. The bible is not a liberal book... unless we count genocide, infanticide, misogyny and slavery as liberal acts... It seems you are interested by believing true things, keep it up, you're almost there. All you need to do is look at the bible totally objectively and re-asses its "truths" within the context of a fact-finding experiment.
In 2024, vote for the candidate who isn't demanding "total immunity from all criminal prosecution" because that's the candidate who will not be breaking the law during his presidency.
In November 2024 VOTE for the ONLY Candidate running for President who's name was not in the Jeffery Epstein court depositions or transcripts, NOT ONCE!! That's who to vote into a term as President of this great already, country, USA! USA! USA! If I hear someone saying our system must completely change i. Order for America to be great, or to go backwards to a time b4 people were given many of our rights to freedoms each one of us take for granted until we don't have it anymore, or that Trump's strong when Everytime his mouth opens he's winning and sniveling about how he's getting treated when most of us feel he's being handled with kid gloves without any reason so it helps us faster our own conspiracy theories until the DOJ can tell the American Public why their so scared to hold "Donald the Menace", to the threats the courts impose to him and in a.min out of court he breaks the very rule anyone in America is FORCED TO KNOW...THE LAWS! NO ONE gets a break if they work with our staunchest adversaries over our country and everyone incl his own NDA signing appointies that are STILL heads of all our major depts within the Govt...starting with the HEAD OF IRS GUY of course bc that's the ONLY govt department that he was given the loopholes from daddies CFO Weislebirger...the one who just went back into Riker's AGAIN...he should, but so should his boss who benefitted from those crimes comitted 💯 the most!!
Yes, many people don't realize the skullduggery of it all. Their thirst for power is like Sauron's for the One Ring: patient yet focused; abiding yet driven. And recall Gandalf's warning to Saruman: "There is only one Lord of the Ring; only one who can bend its power to his will, and he does not share power!" Katherine is right: it's futile trying to out-Jesus the Magangelicals. They must be voted into oblivion.
Broadly speaking I think there are two sets of Christians: Those who believe Christ and the Bible are guides telling us how to help our fellow humans; and those who believe that their declaration of belief gives them the right to rule over others.
Im a Christian too and grew up as a Southern Baptist. I take Jesus as a person who promote LOVES, Compassion, help the weak and acceptances. One of my family member is a Trump supporter. That person promote Christian and Politic together. I told that individual to leave those 2 topics out when talking with family members. It's to preserve the family unit. Trump promote hates and bullying.
@@tr1bes Thanks for your comment, and I am glad to hear your on the "good" side of Christianity. But your use of the word "too" indicates a misunderstanding. I am not a Christian, nor any other religious denomination, nor do I believe in any deities. But I do believe in the Constitution and a government of, by, and for the People. And that means everyone is free to practice any or no religion, but that never gives them the right to impose it on others.
@@janerkenbrack3373 well said. That's why I don't talk about religion with politics as it is a conflict of almost everyone. For me, history is a good place to back up on facts. We all know what happen in Europe when the Roman Catholic church mix in with each nations government. Another thing coming out of Europe is the secular denomination of Christianity and so there are no 1 way or correct way to obliged to. There are many paths in Christianity but there is only one way to Heaven (base on Christianity alone). Same can be said about Islam and Buddhism. 2 paths (sunni and shiite) on Islam and I think there are 4 paths in Buddhism. However, all religions have a common theme. Love, Compassion, acceptance and help the weak/unfortunate. These I don't see in Trump's Maga supposedly Christian value.
Christianity is explicitly all about control and conformity. "Everyone has to be a member of the cult and think and believe exactly the same things or they will all go to eternal torment, and that is a just and good thing." That is an explicit tenet of the faith. How anyone can comfortably sit down across from someone eager to see the bulk of humanity tortured forever is beyond me.
Words from the wise ... “The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites,” he once stated. “The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” - Tolstoy
"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery." - Robert Green Ingersoll "Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh." 1 Peter 2:18
I forget who was the source of the quote, but there's a saying that religion is true to the common man, false to the wise, and useful to the rulers. Religion's probably the most effective form of mass mind control there is, because fear is the mind-killer, and Christianity drills the fear of eternal torment and separation into people from an early age.
Steven says we're spinning our wheels, and that awareness among democracy-defenders here cannot and will not translate into support/success of the film or spur necessary conversations under the umbrella of an A-List documentary. Thanks Steve!
This is absolutely true. I don't think the internet or social media is going to help to get the word out. There is too much censorship on both sides and the algorithm makes sure people see and hear what they want.
Quite the opposite. For years, I blindly subscribed to Christian dogmas, eager to defend the “word of God” (1 Peter 3:15-16). I debated vigorously with worldly people I considered lost. I even debated with people from other faiths who weren't the Church of Christ, bluntly proclaiming their imminent damnation if they failed to repent and align with the "true" path. During this time, I also harbored homophobic and transphobic attitudes, proudly wearing my bigotry as a badge of divine righteousness. Now as a free thinking atheist, I'm much more tolerant, accepting, and open-minded. I'm a much better person now. @@maxpolaris99
@@maxpolaris99 So you don't despise anything? Despising something or someone does not make you a despicable person. You can be a loving person and still despise something. It's like you think being mad at someone turns you into a cruel person.
Christo Fascism is Fascism using religion to scam the gullible into Fascism. Part of what fascist politics does is get people to disassociate from reality. You get them to sign on to this fantasy version of reality, usually a nationalist narrative about the decline of the country and the need for a strong leader to return it to greatness, and from then on their anchor isn’t the world around them - it’s the leader.
TLP has an ad up right now called 'god made a dictator'. About one minute in there's footage of I guess a trump devotee having painted him on a cross. Bruh, these people are NOT normal
@@Lucas-jy7cvhes talking about the historic phenomenon of religious populations being vulnerable to the sway of charismatic, but authoritarian strongmen.
I never realized the double standard about the Supreme Court judges but you’re one hundred percent right the republicans did act in an unfair way for sure
The next time you hear the GOP whining there are two sets of rules, that’s really what they mean. Both parties engage in gerrymandering but GOP is definitely worse. The GOP states with the most draconian abortion bans also have the least amount of social safety nets, less worker’s rights, pay less to help families, women & children and have the worst maternal mortality rates. The GOP has lost the popular vote for the past 20 years. Trump also appointed hundreds of federal judges though I’m not sure why Obama dropped the ball on that one.
@@JaneFleesTexas yeah im at a point now in my life where I don’t really trust either side anymore. It seems to me that the folks at the top are really more about self enrichment and gaining more wealth power and control over the citizenry than they are in doing what they are actually there to do. Both sides of the aisle it seems to me are constantly feeding into the divisive narrative that one side is the enemy of the other and they use controversial issues to do it framing the issues in a way that maximizes the division and minimizes the commonality. Many of those most controversial issues it seems to me have pretty clear solutions that pretty much everyone I think could get on board with. For instance with abortion we don’t need to look at it as pro life or pro choice we can be both. The solution is simply to encourage behaviors which minimize the need or desire for abortions by providing greater access to contraceptives southward cheaper and easier to find and use and to provide more comprehensive sexual education. The way I see it those two things would probably eliminate the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies and there are many other co-issues that would contribute to better outcomes in all situations. The way I see itwiththatparticularissue the two best options by far are to not get pregnant if you don’t want to be or to have a baby you want so anything that will promote those two outcomes over abortion would be far better and probably totally agreeable to the vast majority of people on both sides of the issue. The challenge is that organizations on the prolife side are often against those very things even though most people would agree with that stance I believe. And then pro choice and pro life folks demonize each other for not caring about the issue from their point of view and everyone stays at each others throats because that’s what the organizations and leaders on both sides seem to want. I think it’s like that with probably every major issue if I had to guess. Most people want the same sorts of things they just don’t realize everyone else does and since the debates are framed around the differences rather than the commonalities solutions become two sided instead of being a unified common solution.
We hv limited range of radio here, like 12 stations, 4 of these r religious, struck by the lack of anything scientific, historic, right wing politics also dominates,
This isn't the first time in history that religion & identity politics have been used to rile & rally people. This isn't the first time religion & nationalism has been used to justify violence & the inhumane treatment of other people. I'm a little confounded as to why & how people keep falling for it & I don't get why working class people would ever think that obscenely wealthy people would care 2 figs about their interests or want to elevate them in a heirarchal system that is supposedly the natural order of things. When people are angry & scared, I guess that makes them vulnerable to manipulation? Free Market Capitalism has kind of become the new religion looking for a messiah. They found it in DT. 😢
For Christian fundamentalists, being taught to suppress critical thinking begins at a very early age. It is the combination of the brain’s vulnerability to believing unsupported facts and aggressive indoctrination that create the perfect storm for gullibility. Due to the brain’s neuroplasticity, or ability to be sculpted by lived experiences, evangelicals literally become hardwired to believe far-fetched statements. This wiring begins when they are first taught to accept Biblical stories not as metaphors for living life practically and purposefully, but as objective truth. Mystical explanations for natural events train young minds to not demand evidence for beliefs. As a result, the neural pathways that promote healthy skepticism and rational thought are not properly developed. This inevitably leads to a greater susceptibility to lying and gaslighting by manipulative politicians, and greater suggestibility in general.
Why do think religion starts with children? It's about indoctrination through fear and propaganda. It turns them into "Christian soldiers" for god. And then it sends them into battle!
I was told that I could'nt be a Christian if i voted for a Democrat but I did (and will). I am a follower of the loving, inclusive, and forgiving Jesus Christ. No human or words can separate me from His love. Thank you for this video!
"No human or words can separate me from His love." So you admit that your belief is totally irrational; and you seem proud of that fact. Weird. At least you are not blind to what is going on around you... there is hope, yet... 😜
@NomadEquestrian Why should I care what a book says? Especially when it's anonymous... Anyone can write anything, it's uninteresting. Give me facts and objective evidence instead.
@JGM0JGM When there is a healthy body and income, there is no desire for God until? You are correct when you are defiantly skeptical of a religion but don't judge God by Christians or things of this world. If you truly want to know the truth, you ask Him if He is real. He will show up, and only you will know it's divine because He will show you in a way that there is NO question. It's personal. There isn't any way to explain, nor are there any amount of words that will change your mind
@chatsagain Please, explain a method or a process one can use to ascertain whether the voice they hear in their head is actually originating from a source which actually exists outside of one's own body, and not originating from one's own consciousness, which we know is not only possible, but has been documented to have occurred thousands upon thousands of times. Thank you.
For a "civilian" there is truly one place to practice politics. It is in the voting cabin. How many families can have a dinner together when they can talk about current politics in a honest, kind, loving way?
Thank you for existing you both...I find hope when I see that people like you. Im spanish and live in the province of Granada on the coast in my village my friends and villagers that know me since I was born think Im a strange creature because Im an atheist...it is lonely here
Interesting about the segment on reading the same text and interpreting different things…one if my cousins, a god fearing woman with such compassion for friends and families posted a Bible verse a couple of days ago that was so hateful and fear mongering and awful about the destruction and apparent contamination being visited on the country because of immigration…how compartmented must a brain be to be capable of such love and even self sacrifice side by side with such hatred and fear and disgust?
My older brother died a couple of years ago. In his late years, he was a raving wingnut. It actually started much earlier, from being taught to shoot by a stepdad in KY during the summers he spent with our mom, to deciding he didn't like being equal to the Latino guys he worked with at a furniture store, to his ideas of women (also derived from Ky Methodist family and several no-class white trash stepfathers). He had continual employment issues with supervisors who were either non-white or female. One interesting thing - he did 1st grade twice, due to problems with reading. Later on, in high school, he had pretty low grades and our dad noticed his take on current events topics was a bit odd. Dad picked a text out of a history book, told him to read it and then tell dad what it meant. What the text SAID and what my brother GOT as the meaning was WILDLY different. Dad was absolutely boggled that my brother couldn't read a simple history lesson and get the simple statement of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, without imposing his biased interpretation on top of it. Intelligence is not the same as rationality... being 'reasonable'. Both our parents were smart people, our mom (while alcoholic) was very artistic and mostly a 'southern lady' type. She encouraged us to read, watch good stuff on tv like news and documentaries (the 1st televised open-heart surgery, f'r'instance) so brother had inherited good 'basic brights' but his ability to reason was seriously flawed by other influences. We all learn 'personal filters' but some of us can't see AROUND THEM to the real facts. They don't WANT to - they prefer their 'alternative facts'. AND my fave quote from Eric Hoffer's THE TRUE BELIEVER: "The TB is fact-proof."
It's not immigration it's the way the laws are not being enforced. It's a simple concept really. We don't even know who is coming in. Just let some random guy come in your house use your food your bathroom. Hopefully your wife will be ok with it and your children too
This can all be broken down to a very simple axiom. In order to capture a large following, and keep them devoted to you, is to invent an imaginary enemy and tell people this enemy is a threat to them. Then position yourself as champion for their cause against this enemy. And it's tremendously effective. Everyone is using it, from preachers to talk show hosts. And it's a no lose proposition because when someone does object to that rhetoric, that merely puts a face on this imaginary enemy, someone this "leader" can point to and say, "there, that's the person I warned you about." It plays right into their hands. It's why these legal charges against Trump only bolster his support.
Yep. Christianity (and most religions, in fact) in a nutshell... invent a malady, convince people that they are sick from that malady, propose an imaginary cure and then you have devotion.... who wouldn't adore and respect a cure provider?
Enforced law against a former president. No enforcement of law against a sitting president. No enforcement of laws at our border or in our cities. Sounds good
Does anyone know what “Nazi” means? It is the abbreviation of the German word, Nazionaliste, meaning Nationalist. The Nazis were White Christian Nationalists. Sound familiar?
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP, or National Socialist German Workers’ Party). The term ‘Nazi’, an abbreviation of National Socialist devised by a journalist. Better run for the hills and hide from whitey.
And they treated LBGTQ people like vermin, imprisoned, or killed all the leftists they could catch and campaigned on a platform of Christianity and traditional values. Remind you of anyone?
Actually it is derived from National Socialists. Hitler's party was officialy the NSDAP (NAtionalsoZIalistische deutsche arbeiterpartei). Which translates as the Nationalsocialist German Workersparty. The whole socialist thing was just windowdressing as the nazis saw actual socialists (let alone communists) as mortal enemies. There is no doubt however that the vast majorty of nazi's were in fact christian at least nominally. And the anti-semitism they espoused, was of course based on a long-standing christian tradition, so to speak.
Actually, Nazi is shortened from National Socialist … in German, Nationalsozialist. And, actually the Nazi‘s wanted the church subordinate to the government. In the end, the effect was the same, though. Just want to make sure the history is accurately reflected here.
No, there is not a double standard by the right. As far as the right is concerned, there is only one rule; the rules are what ever we say when ever we say them. Magic.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. Bertrand Russell
This reminds me of a revision, or a copy of the 1600s English Monarchy and the equally powerful Church of England....the very institutional government we fought to get out of and obtain our freedom by creating a country by the people and for the people.
"People who the 'knowledge economy' has often left behind, i think for many of these people they have legitimate grievances, but he weaponizes those grievances and he's not working toward real solutions." THIS THIS THIS.
Based on what Katherine was saying, it looks like we really need to be much more aware of what's going on. It's embarrassing to see corporate media play this weird game of trying to almost, kinda, sorta report real news but still do it in such a way to appease their masters. I think most of them know that the Republican party is burnt toast this year and they don't know what to do. Way too many independents calling them out. Support independent media !!! BTW, Atheist here.. love your shows !
Civics101: Reminder that *election winners* make the laws, determine the punishments, set the tax brackets, create the budgets, and shape the judiciary. So please go to your local county Democratic Party headquarters and offer your support, time, energy, enthusiasm, friendship, skills, talents, and encouragement to help the BLUE party win elections. Offer to organize your local Democratic precinct to help get out the vote for Dems. Meet your neighbors. Support Dems. An individual has never passed a law, only parties pass laws, rarely they are bipartisan, but mostly it takes a party. Support the blue party! See the Blue voter guide.
🎯 It makes them brave as hell willing to commit any atrocity in the deluded belief some reward supposedly awaits them........ Theism if one is honest is more dangerous to mankind than nuclear weapons. A rational person would not employ nukes = but a Fundie would if they believed their "God" wanted it that way........ Theism at its' core = is a death cult.
This was a very eye-opening video podcast! I write and advocate extensively about what you covered in the video and the documentary. With that said, there is a lot that is relevant but hidden in plain sight. Hope we can continue this conversation.
These people who think they are serving Christ by supporting trump are flying right in the face of Revelations which is exactly the reference they use to support him...That actually adds validity to Revelations....Ouch my brain hurts.👍🙏🇨🇦
So true, there is no good Christian King of the World in the Bible's predictions for "the last days" only a lawless dictator who deceives Christians, throws truth to the ground and changes laws and times, wanting to be worshipped as the son of man. Geez, can't they read?
Ok. Billionaires owns the country, land and big companies. Billionaires have politicians, specially republicans in their pockets. They are hanging around with Supreme Court judges at least six of them. - What can you do?
Historian here. Fascism is quite an exaggeration. Authoritarian Theocracy is what it would be. Fascism has become a colloquialism in Trump era America. It is thrown around too lightly. We all need to be as scared of Theocracy. Look at what happened to Iran.
Claiming an unproven god should be respected is laughable to me. Many believers don't care if god is proven or not, as long as they get to instill the fascism THEY seem obsessed with.
Yay, another person to actually do the research and show that very authoritarian systems are being foisted on us using religion and the grievances of those who have lost out as manufacturing declined cynically to further their aims.
Google epstein trump rape 13 year Olds court deposition. It's true, and the girl dropped charges after her family received death threats. Her sworn court deposition can be read in detail, how trump threatened her, and how epstein and trump argued over who would rape her first for her virginity. Read it
This is excellent, and I will be checking out these books first chance I get. I also will follow this channel. However, to put it mildly, I have a major gripe. This current Christian Nationalist movement has been SEVERAL DECADES in the making. I finally saw it firsthand myself in the 90s when I was a Christian, and it made me step away from most of Christianity at least 10 years before I finally quit it completely. Why are so many folks just now seeing it?! Why are they only now talking about it?! Some of us have been too nice--commendable as the effort may have been--while others have been too antagonistic. Of the latter, so many were ignorant of Christianity, its nuances, and its current fragmented state, yet ridiculed all Christians as if they were all the same. Foul, disgusting, and treasonous (yes, it is) as this Christian Nationalism is, from what I saw over the years, this strong push was INEVITABLE! I was called paranoid by many people further left than I am now. They probably wouldn't remember those conversations, and in my age, I've forgotten what those people even looked like. This is one of many times in my life that I wish I'd been wrong. Rant over and documented.
Decades since I've heard someone say Social Capitol. Let us rebuild America's accounting of social responsibility. Trump couldn't carry his con game this far if the media wasn't so busy distroying Social Capital for profit.
So I want to get a few thoughts from any of you here (mostly for you fellow atheists). And I wanna see if I’ve been unfair with assessing christians. So you know how lately (or for the longest time) people who advertise themselves as people who follow the teachings of Christ, they have the worst qualities of a human being, exactly the opposite to what Jesus teaches…yet they still call themselves Christians. I say you’re only a christian if you follow to the best of your ability that which you worship. So in all fairness, why call yourself a christian if you’re no way near of what a Christian should be. Example : if a vegan snacks on a drum stick, but 99% the time they eat vegetables, they’re just not a vegan. One should call themselves a label if that is what do as a practice. Like, I can’t call myself a martial artist if I don’t practice martial arts. Back to Christians- If these people don’t follow the BARE MINIMUM BASICS of what qualifies as a Christian, yet they label themselves as that….are they really actual Christians? That is my question.
They're Christo-Fascists, people who promote Fascism by using religion to fool the gullible into Fascism. The Nazis, had the help and support of the Vatican until the Nazis no longer needed them.
They know they are not really Christians (actually adhere to Jesus' teachings). It has a totally different meaning and some readily admit it. This is my observation. Is never heard anyone call themselves a Christian when I was a kid (and an atheist since 7 yo) and then I heard it popping up all over on the past 20 years and I kept thinking why are some people constantly calling themselves that like who cares? I don't go running around calling myself a Catholic (religion of my dad). Little did I know it was a declaration of a cult. The more they screamed about they're Christian and it was blatant in politics, the more I realized how ugly and awful they are. 🤷🏽♀️ I think when Obama was elected was when it really hit home. I was never a Christian, so just my take.
Yes. And I say this to theists all the time who profess that the bad ones 'aren't true christians': the implication is that 'true christians' cannot possibly be mean, unsympathetic, lack empathy, unkind, hypocritical etc - in other words, human. That's just nonsense - demonstrably so. And I say all _that_ as a former christian of many years. It's not for nothing that in the bible the apostle paul (i think) writes to _christians_ warning them about the very attitudes you describe. The attitudes we see today. It's not a bug, it's a feature of feeling you're absolved of sins past present and future.
There are Christians and then there are Christians. I'm an atheist, but I volunteer for a solar panel charity run by Christians, who are all very concerned about climate change. I haven't discussed with them all, but I'm pretty sure they're all down with the LGBTQIA+ community. Many Christians are good people. Not all (even in the USA) are mouth frothing right wingers.
@outermarker5801 Yes, it's very confusing, but where are ALL these "real christians" protesting that their "good name" is being impugned by ALL these "fake christians"? Are they also being oppressed, or are they accomplices?
I’m having a hard time holding back from telling my family that I don’t share their beliefs about religion or their political views about trump. I want to have a good relationship with my family but all this stuff is just not for me.
I feel that as well. My emotions are tied to how much trauma I have repressed for their sake. Blame the victim and victim blames herself is a real thing. Perhaps they will never change, yet we have probably repressed our own needs and values for them to dominate all discussion for far too long.
I've had to drop friends in trumps cult, and with family they know my beliefs and I know there's. But we don't bring politics up. You may lose them if you do, better to wait until after election and maybe trump will go away this time. Trump ain't winning.
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." "Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society." "No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever." "Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society." "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." "Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination." "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State." Thomas Jefferson
"In every age and in every country the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." Thomas Jefferson
"Faith" is required to "Believe in Lies" and why religions demand "Faithfulness" to maintain Power & Control over “believers” who will Force their Theocratic Fascism on everyone and terrorize non-believers who can see through their Lies... Read: "God And The Fascists" by Karlheinz Deschner (1965 German/2013 English) - "Gott mit uns”
We need our lead water lines replaced here in Michigan, but the city is putting up Christmas lights for four months and taking them down for another four months.
I have started referring to Christian nationalists as Nationalist Christians so that I can then (and yes, I know I'm being immature) shorten it to Nat-Cs.
Wow that trailer had all the christian figures I ACTUALLY like and respect! Phil Vischer, Skye Jathani, Russell Moore, David French! Im a staunch atheist, but I like listening to The Holy Post with Phil Vischer and Skye Jathani sometimes.
Jesus was not Christian. Most christianity is Paulism. What would Christianity feel like if the holy book was condensed to the utterances and actual acts of its Godhead? I look foward to reading your reseach.
Both Jesus and Paul are fictional characters. They obviously never existed. They are just Roman Imperial propaganda characters. The Roman Empire never died: it transformed into the Vatican
At 41, i left church. I now see how it harms us a society more than it helps us. Could Christianity be redeemed? Maybe parts of it and if the practicioners really changed their ways, but there's too much power, influence, money, and control to give up. I sometimes think the US would need to fall economically, i mean really fall, before a better version of Christianity could arise. You would likely see the greedy and hateful people leave Christianity while the loving and caring believers would shine.
I’m an independent voter who has tended to vote Republican since the Reagan years. January 6 disgusted me. More than that, the Trump apologists in the House and Senate have turned me off to the party. Actually the extremes of both parties seem to be taking over, and I’m frustrated and disgusted with the politics of it all. I find it harder and harder to find politicians to vote for.
@@randibgoodThere aren’t any, though conservatives will point out “woke” madness and runaway identity-politics with the left. Except today’s Democrats aren’t really left, though Republicans will paint them that way.
@@joeanthony7759that's not an answer. that's a pathetic attempt to both sides this issue when there's clearly no one on the left that's extreme. it's one thing to say a group of people don't believe the same thing you do. it's entirely another to equate them with a group of people that are clearly a danger to society. do better.
I am guessing that this movie will FLOP in a HUGE WAY. Just sayin'. I had never heard of it until someone on the radio mentioned it in passing. Maybe it has ALREADY FLOPPED. Like I said, I had never heard of it.
Because the people of our country aren't taught proper history about our own countries past experiences, we know even LESS about the history of all the other countries from around the world, and more importantly how people are made to live under an authoritarian regime which is led by a 1 man ONLY, Dictator,such as those living in Saudi Arabia, Russia, North Korea, China, etc...and along with US, there are quite a few other countries fighting to take the citizens living in their countries rights, freedoms, well their whole way of life under a democracy destroyed and strongly replaced with extreme totalitarian regimes all around the world which have these rules in every country living in one. FOR CERTAIN the wanna e dictatoe for our country, Trump has clearly said on DAY 1: HE will tear up the Constitution and rewrite it according to HIS rules! That wont be completed EVER...btw. It also means Congress will no longer be needed and neither will the SCOTUS bc he will make all the rules that he will not have to follow, AT ALL, EVER! But, we, his slaves, will including EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN bc we will all FINALLY BE TREATED EQUAL...HE WILL OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE INCL OUR PERSONAL GUNS, PROPERTY, KIDS, SPOUSES, EVERY BIT OF MONEY THAT THE RICH OLIGARCHS OWN, ALL CORPORATIONS, ALL CHURCHES ASSETS AND LEADERS! E V E R Y THING!! GUARANTEED!! American citizens will not be able to leave the country..Not even yhose with private jets and second homes outside the U.S. He will own our military and the militia people fighting for him to return to power esp those who hes been calling "Prisoners of war" bc of J6 WILL NOT BE REWATDED NOR NEEDED BC ONLY THE VERY BEST IN THE ACTIVE MILITARY WILL BE CHOSEN TO BE HIS PERSONAL SECURITY!! NOT anyone whose been caught and small militias are so far beneath him...HIS ONLY EQUALS OF SORT, WILL BE who he already brags are his bffs now, other Dictators!! He will do exactly what the Saudi prince recently did in his country...after destrpyong the constitution he will pull out of NATO, he will order HIS active military to round up Bezos, Musk, the Koch bros, Zuckerberg, etc... thats WHY he reduced taxes for the very richest Americans bc its extremely easy to round up a few billionaires holding all the wealth of our country, and whe the Prince of Saudi had those in that country get brought to the Ritz to sign over ALL THEIR MONEY, who btw were his own family members we the only ppl with any money, and they HAD TO DO IT OR GET SHOT IN THE HEAD RIGHT THERE!, Trump will probably have our richest in America brought to Mar a lago, i betcha, and FORCE THEM TO SIGN OVER ALL THEIR MONEY AND ASSETS! And he understands where and how some have their stash of money in other banks or laundered in other friendly countries with the means to retreive all that cash, too!! No doubt! Then he will dend out hos military to collect EVERY WEAPON FROM AMERICANS EVERYWHERE DOOR TO DOOR AND WITHOUT ANY SYMPATHY FOR ANY OF US! Dud anyone think ppl that live under Dictators in those countries can own anything ESPECIALLY ANY GUNS OF ANY SORT?? HA! You're foolish to believe that unless you are in the active military, guns wont be permitted to any regular American citizen...NONE of the ppl living in these countries can own ANYTHING, not homes, not stocks, not companies, not dignity, not churches, not personal weapons, not themselves we would ALL BE King Trumps property and FORGET PARDONING ANYONE ESP J6ers...YOU GOT CAUGHT, YOU'RE SUCKERS TO HIM, NOT HEROS !! REMEMBER? PLUS, he will say that you didnt even finish the job he ordered you to do, ANYWAYS!! YOU ARE THE VERY LAST PEOPLE HE WOULD EVER BEFRIEND OR GIVE A THOUGHT TOWARDS !! He cant stand the people who he has to ACT kind to who he refers to HIS BASE ALREADY... HE HATES AMERICA! HE HATES ALL AMERICANS !! The only ppl that wont be thrown into the lions den MIGHT BE Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, and Steve Bannon...and some of his Russian buds Putin had working for him inside the Oval Office and the White House! He recently said that "if he wins in 2024, that will be the last election!! He said that in an interview on national tv! Which gets satellite revieved in Russia and the likes...for now anyways...He wants to be the richest of all the dictators around the world! And then...putin will take it from hom or maybe he plans on giving US to Putin anyways...he is old and brand new at being a dictator of the most powerful country in the WORLD so...Putins smarter and much better at it BY FAR!!! THAT my fellow Americans, is what you are fighting FOR when you stand behind Trump and vote Republican today!! All Tepublicans even your state and local legislatures and Governors are All CORRUPT AND ANTI DEMOCRACY! People, the ONLY teason Americas been the leading country around the world and respected and followed by MANY countries people and their leaders IS BECAUSE WE INVENTED THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT FIRST!! ONCE we vote against keeping democracy as our system of govt, we WILL FALL and NEVER BE ABLE TO GO BACK TO BEING A DEMOCRACY EVER AGAIN! AMERICA HELPS THOSE COUNTRIES WHOSE LEADERS CHEAT THEM OUT OF THEIR DEMOCRACY...WHO WOULD HELP US???? NO ONE COULD!! DO YOU GET IT NOW?? THIS IS NOT A DRILL and we cant change out minds once democracy is voted out!! Ever!! What will we tell our children and grandchildren? That WE VOTED TO TAKE AWAY THEIR FREEDOM, THEIR RIGHTS, THEIR DEMOCRACY FOREVER!!
@@joeanthony7759No, it's time the U.S. revs up...everything I said in my comment should be screamed from every rooftop! once we vote out democracy, it's impossible to get back! So, please just look up how ppl have to live in the countries whose dictators Trump admires bc they run them with an IRON Fist...he said it, not me! THINK for damn sake!
Fascism is not an exaggeration. It does not have to look like German fascism, or Italian fascism, or Spanish fascism. American fascism is uniquely American. It looks like MAGA. It looks like Project 2025. It looks like donald. It looks like Mike Johnson.
its way more than a exaggeration its paranoid hyperbole
@@j19n7200 MAGA republicans support laws that criminalise certain "undesirable" people (usually LGBT+ people), laws that restrict people's personal freedom, support a person who wants to be a dictator, support laws that limit certain demographics' voting rights, and so much more.
Project 2025 is basically a handbook on American fascism.
@@j19n7200Why don't you use punctuation?
I didn't do good in school. @@Spock_Rogers
These ignorant Cs need to read a history book on the years 1933-1945, and see how North Korea lives today.
Whatever vestiges of religious belief I had left evaporated completely after witnessing the behaviour of these so-called 'christians'. I should thank them for opening my eyes. I'm 'woke' now.
Same same. I'm a proud apostate
Same
Proud areligous person here. The last few years and having been with a SO who is Christian Nationalist were more than enough for me. Religion has done a great job of proving itself to be false.
I'm a small c Christian and you guys make more sense than those HUGE MONSTROUSLY LOUD big C Christians that get all the attention...🇨🇦🙏👍
A deep belief in an absurd myth with zero proof is not a rational or intelligent position.
All because of the fear of death.
Yet people vote for those who will affect the lives of others, based on that belief.
As if some mythical higher power is a viable excuse for exclusion, hatred and many horrible deeds suffered on others.
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." - James Madison, 1803
Yet the “only one who can save America “….according to many insane Americans, happily takes the support of those who would change that.
I mean, he can just suspend the constitution and all…
Madison was definitely correct.
One of my favorite quotes when people say Chrischun country.
I give them a perfect good modern day religious government. IRAN. "How does that go?"
@@tr1bes good I guess if you are Shia
I am hearing more truth from atheists than from my Christian brothers...keep it up.
Many, if not most, atheists got there by searching for truth, so it shouldn't be that surprising.
Kudos to you though, for not discounting the information due only to the source.
@@decibel333 I am massively disappointed with what passes for Christianity these days...my reading of the Bible turned me into a liberal...I can't support conservatism..no grace. I hear atheists sound more like the Bible than the obnoxiously loud theists. I'm just a searcher.
@@BrianPeloso-ln4ryhave you ever read Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You ? It's worth checking out if you haven't ✌️
@@BrianPeloso-ln4ry "..my reading of the Bible turned me into a liberal..." Ah, so you used rosy cherry-picking glasses to do your reading. The bible is not a liberal book... unless we count genocide, infanticide, misogyny and slavery as liberal acts...
It seems you are interested by believing true things, keep it up, you're almost there. All you need to do is look at the bible totally objectively and re-asses its "truths" within the context of a fact-finding experiment.
These so called Christians are more like Bible villains. Exactly who they are told not to be.
In 2024, vote for the candidate who isn't demanding "total immunity from all criminal prosecution" because that's the candidate who will not be breaking the law during his presidency.
In November 2024 VOTE for the ONLY Candidate running for President who's name was not in the Jeffery Epstein court depositions or transcripts, NOT ONCE!! That's who to vote into a term as President of this great already, country, USA! USA! USA! If I hear someone saying our system must completely change i. Order for America to be great, or to go backwards to a time b4 people were given many of our rights to freedoms each one of us take for granted until we don't have it anymore, or that Trump's strong when Everytime his mouth opens he's winning and sniveling about how he's getting treated when most of us feel he's being handled with kid gloves without any reason so it helps us faster our own conspiracy theories until the DOJ can tell the American Public why their so scared to hold "Donald the Menace", to the threats the courts impose to him and in a.min out of court he breaks the very rule anyone in America is FORCED TO KNOW...THE LAWS! NO ONE gets a break if they work with our staunchest adversaries over our country and everyone incl his own NDA signing appointies that are STILL heads of all our major depts within the Govt...starting with the HEAD OF IRS GUY of course bc that's the ONLY govt department that he was given the loopholes from daddies CFO Weislebirger...the one who just went back into Riker's AGAIN...he should, but so should his boss who benefitted from those crimes comitted 💯 the most!!
Yes, many people don't realize the skullduggery of it all. Their thirst for power is like Sauron's for the One Ring: patient yet focused; abiding yet driven. And recall Gandalf's warning to Saruman: "There is only one Lord of the Ring; only one who can bend its power to his will, and he does not share power!" Katherine is right: it's futile trying to out-Jesus the Magangelicals. They must be voted into oblivion.
Why all the references to Lord Of The Rings? It's just a story. Are you going to quote Harry Potter next? 🤔
What a great interview. Thanks for introducing me to Katherine Stewart.
Broadly speaking I think there are two sets of Christians: Those who believe Christ and the Bible are guides telling us how to help our fellow humans; and those who believe that their declaration of belief gives them the right to rule over others.
Most so-called christians are not followers of Jesus.
well said
Im a Christian too and grew up as a Southern Baptist. I take Jesus as a person who promote LOVES, Compassion, help the weak and acceptances. One of my family member is a Trump supporter. That person promote Christian and Politic together. I told that individual to leave those 2 topics out when talking with family members. It's to preserve the family unit.
Trump promote hates and bullying.
@@tr1bes Thanks for your comment, and I am glad to hear your on the "good" side of Christianity. But your use of the word "too" indicates a misunderstanding. I am not a Christian, nor any other religious denomination, nor do I believe in any deities.
But I do believe in the Constitution and a government of, by, and for the People. And that means everyone is free to practice any or no religion, but that never gives them the right to impose it on others.
@@janerkenbrack3373 well said.
That's why I don't talk about religion with politics as it is a conflict of almost everyone. For me, history is a good place to back up on facts. We all know what happen in Europe when the Roman Catholic church mix in with each nations government. Another thing coming out of Europe is the secular denomination of Christianity and so there are no 1 way or correct way to obliged to. There are many paths in Christianity but there is only one way to Heaven (base on Christianity alone). Same can be said about Islam and Buddhism. 2 paths (sunni and shiite) on Islam and I think there are 4 paths in Buddhism.
However, all religions have a common theme. Love, Compassion, acceptance and help the weak/unfortunate. These I don't see in Trump's Maga supposedly Christian value.
Frank Zappa on TV in 1986 says his biggest fear is that the USA is changing in a fascist theocracy
Katherine Stewart is awesome, been following her for years.
Nice to see her featured here. Smart, educated and well spoken.
I started The Power Worshippers & it took me a few minutes to understand her book was turned into the movie! 🤦🏻♀️
@@JaneFleesTexas awesome 👌
Christianity is explicitly all about control and conformity. "Everyone has to be a member of the cult and think and believe exactly the same things or they will all go to eternal torment, and that is a just and good thing." That is an explicit tenet of the faith.
How anyone can comfortably sit down across from someone eager to see the bulk of humanity tortured forever is beyond me.
Words from the wise ... “The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites,” he once stated. “The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” - Tolstoy
@@jamesschneider2091 Any religion that involves worshiping a god that has or does condone slavery, genocide, and sexism is not a good religion.
It seems to me like a form of terrorism.
"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
"Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh."
1 Peter 2:18
I forget who was the source of the quote, but there's a saying that religion is true to the common man, false to the wise, and useful to the rulers. Religion's probably the most effective form of mass mind control there is, because fear is the mind-killer, and Christianity drills the fear of eternal torment and separation into people from an early age.
None of the people who need to hear this are listening. They would never watch TTA, they won't read your book or watch the film.
Steven says we're spinning our wheels, and that awareness among democracy-defenders here cannot and will not translate into support/success of the film or spur necessary conversations under the umbrella of an A-List documentary.
Thanks Steve!
This is absolutely true. I don't think the internet or social media is going to help to get the word out. There is too much censorship on both sides and the algorithm makes sure people see and hear what they want.
They can't read themselves 😂
When I was a Christian, I loved trump. Now that I'm a free thinking atheist, I despise him.
So you freely admit you went from loving to despicable.
Quite the opposite. For years, I blindly subscribed to Christian dogmas, eager to defend the “word of God” (1 Peter 3:15-16). I debated vigorously with worldly people I considered lost. I even debated with people from other faiths who weren't the Church of Christ, bluntly proclaiming their imminent damnation if they failed to repent and align with the "true" path. During this time, I also harbored homophobic and transphobic attitudes, proudly wearing my bigotry as a badge of divine righteousness. Now as a free thinking atheist, I'm much more tolerant, accepting, and open-minded. I'm a much better person now. @@maxpolaris99
@@maxpolaris99 So you don't despise anything? Despising something or someone does not make you a despicable person. You can be a loving person and still despise something. It's like you think being mad at someone turns you into a cruel person.
jumped on a bandwagon.
Christo Fascism is Fascism using religion to scam the gullible into Fascism. Part of what fascist politics does is get people to disassociate from reality. You get them to sign on to this fantasy version of reality, usually a nationalist narrative about the decline of the country and the need for a strong leader to return it to greatness, and from then on their anchor isn’t the world around them - it’s the leader.
TLP has an ad up right now called 'god made a dictator'. About one minute in there's footage of I guess a trump devotee having painted him on a cross.
Bruh, these people are NOT normal
The religious are very easily swayed by the next narcissistic prophet. Sadly, it's been "normal" since forever.
@@t0dd000what are you even talking about
@@Lucas-jy7cvhes talking about the historic phenomenon of religious populations being vulnerable to the sway of charismatic, but authoritarian strongmen.
@@starsiegeRoks I got it. I just don't see Christian people thinking trump is the ultimate. Maybe to save America but no,not our soul
I never realized the double standard about the Supreme Court judges but you’re one hundred percent right the republicans did act in an unfair way for sure
I have never seen any part of the government work so smoothly as when they shoved Amy Barrett down our throats.
The next time you hear the GOP whining there are two sets of rules, that’s really what they mean. Both parties engage in gerrymandering but GOP is definitely worse. The GOP states with the most draconian abortion bans also have the least amount of social safety nets, less worker’s rights, pay less to help families, women & children and have the worst maternal mortality rates. The GOP has lost the popular vote for the past 20 years. Trump also appointed hundreds of federal judges though I’m not sure why Obama dropped the ball on that one.
One person reached….
@@JaneFleesTexas yeah im at a point now in my life where I don’t really trust either side anymore. It seems to me that the folks at the top are really more about self enrichment and gaining more wealth power and control over the citizenry than they are in doing what they are actually there to do. Both sides of the aisle it seems to me are constantly feeding into the divisive narrative that one side is the enemy of the other and they use controversial issues to do it framing the issues in a way that maximizes the division and minimizes the commonality. Many of those most controversial issues it seems to me have pretty clear solutions that pretty much everyone I think could get on board with. For instance with abortion we don’t need to look at it as pro life or pro choice we can be both. The solution is simply to encourage behaviors which minimize the need or desire for abortions by providing greater access to contraceptives southward cheaper and easier to find and use and to provide more comprehensive sexual education. The way I see it those two things would probably eliminate the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies and there are many other co-issues that would contribute to better outcomes in all situations. The way I see itwiththatparticularissue the two best options by far are to not get pregnant if you don’t want to be or to have a baby you want so anything that will promote those two outcomes over abortion would be far better and probably totally agreeable to the vast majority of people on both sides of the issue. The challenge is that organizations on the prolife side are often against those very things even though most people would agree with that stance I believe. And then pro choice and pro life folks demonize each other for not caring about the issue from their point of view and everyone stays at each others throats because that’s what the organizations and leaders on both sides seem to want. I think it’s like that with probably every major issue if I had to guess. Most people want the same sorts of things they just don’t realize everyone else does and since the debates are framed around the differences rather than the commonalities solutions become two sided instead of being a unified common solution.
@@digitalperson108 welcome. This reach around is meant for the next person to be reached.
Loved her book, got it on audio and listened to the whole thing. Very enlightening and frightening what those people are up to.
It's all part of God's plan......ever hear that one? God if we must have a dictator...why a moron?
We hv limited range of radio here, like 12 stations, 4 of these r religious, struck by the lack of anything scientific, historic, right wing politics also dominates,
The subtitle for this documentary could be "Gilead in the making"
Red hats are the new brown shirts. yep
Most Red hats do not know what happened to the brown shirts but even if they did these hateful people do not care.
This isn't the first time in history that religion & identity politics have been used to rile & rally people. This isn't the first time religion & nationalism has been used to justify violence & the inhumane treatment of other people. I'm a little confounded as to why & how people keep falling for it & I don't get why working class people would ever think that obscenely wealthy people would care 2 figs about their interests or want to elevate them in a heirarchal system that is supposedly the natural order of things. When people are angry & scared, I guess that makes them vulnerable to manipulation? Free Market Capitalism has kind of become the new religion looking for a messiah. They found it in DT. 😢
For Christian fundamentalists, being taught to suppress critical thinking begins at a very early age. It is the combination of the brain’s vulnerability to believing unsupported facts and aggressive indoctrination that create the perfect storm for gullibility. Due to the brain’s neuroplasticity, or ability to be sculpted by lived experiences, evangelicals literally become hardwired to believe far-fetched statements.
This wiring begins when they are first taught to accept Biblical stories not as metaphors for living life practically and purposefully, but as objective truth. Mystical explanations for natural events train young minds to not demand evidence for beliefs. As a result, the neural pathways that promote healthy skepticism and rational thought are not properly developed. This inevitably leads to a greater susceptibility to lying and gaslighting by manipulative politicians, and greater suggestibility in general.
Try living in North Korea then.
Why do think religion starts with children? It's about indoctrination through fear and propaganda. It turns them into "Christian soldiers" for god. And then it sends them into battle!
I was told that I could'nt be a Christian if i voted for a Democrat but I did (and will). I am a follower of the loving, inclusive, and forgiving Jesus Christ. No human or words can separate me from His love.
Thank you for this video!
"No human or words can separate me from His love."
So you admit that your belief is totally irrational; and you seem proud of that fact. Weird. At least you are not blind to what is going on around you... there is hope, yet... 😜
@@NomadEquestrian I know, telling it like it is can be a hard pill to swallow.
@NomadEquestrian Why should I care what a book says? Especially when it's anonymous... Anyone can write anything, it's uninteresting.
Give me facts and objective evidence instead.
@JGM0JGM
When there is a healthy body and income, there is no desire for God until? You are correct when you are defiantly skeptical of a religion but don't judge God by Christians or things of this world. If you truly want to know the truth, you ask Him if He is real. He will show up, and only you will know it's divine because He will show you in a way that there is NO question. It's personal. There isn't any way to explain, nor are there any amount of words that will change your mind
@chatsagain Please, explain a method or a process one can use to ascertain whether the voice they hear in their head is actually originating from a source which actually exists outside of one's own body, and not originating from one's own consciousness, which we know is not only possible, but has been documented to have occurred thousands upon thousands of times. Thank you.
For a "civilian" there is truly one place to practice politics. It is in the voting cabin.
How many families can have a dinner together when they can talk about current politics in a honest, kind, loving way?
Thank you for existing you both...I find hope when I see that people like you.
Im spanish and live in the province of Granada on the coast in my village my friends and villagers that know me since I was born think Im a strange creature because Im an atheist...it is lonely here
Interesting about the segment on reading the same text and interpreting different things…one if my cousins, a god fearing woman with such compassion for friends and families posted a Bible verse a couple of days ago that was so hateful and fear mongering and awful about the destruction and apparent contamination being visited on the country because of immigration…how compartmented must a brain be to be capable of such love and even self sacrifice side by side with such hatred and fear and disgust?
My older brother died a couple of years ago. In his late years, he was a raving wingnut. It actually started much earlier, from being taught to shoot by a stepdad in KY during the summers he spent with our mom, to deciding he didn't like being equal to the Latino guys he worked with at a furniture store, to his ideas of women (also derived from Ky Methodist family and several no-class white trash stepfathers). He had continual employment issues with supervisors who were either non-white or female.
One interesting thing - he did 1st grade twice, due to problems with reading. Later on, in high school, he had pretty low grades and our dad noticed his take on current events topics was a bit odd. Dad picked a text out of a history book, told him to read it and then tell dad what it meant. What the text SAID and what my brother GOT as the meaning was WILDLY different. Dad was absolutely boggled that my brother couldn't read a simple history lesson and get the simple statement of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, without imposing his biased interpretation on top of it.
Intelligence is not the same as rationality... being 'reasonable'. Both our parents were smart people, our mom (while alcoholic) was very artistic and mostly a 'southern lady' type. She encouraged us to read, watch good stuff on tv like news and documentaries (the 1st televised open-heart surgery, f'r'instance) so brother had inherited good 'basic brights' but his ability to reason was seriously flawed by other influences.
We all learn 'personal filters' but some of us can't see AROUND THEM to the real facts. They don't WANT to - they prefer their 'alternative facts'.
AND my fave quote from Eric Hoffer's THE TRUE BELIEVER: "The TB is fact-proof."
Brainwashed by the bible and or brainwashed by trumpf, fox news and rethuglicans is caused by the same thing, a weak feeble mind!!!
It's not immigration it's the way the laws are not being enforced. It's a simple concept really.
We don't even know who is coming in. Just let some random guy come in your house use your food your bathroom. Hopefully your wife will be ok with it and your children too
To call these people "Christians is to take the Lord's name in vain.😢
This can all be broken down to a very simple axiom. In order to capture a large following, and keep them devoted to you, is to invent an imaginary enemy and tell people this enemy is a threat to them. Then position yourself as champion for their cause against this enemy. And it's tremendously effective. Everyone is using it, from preachers to talk show hosts. And it's a no lose proposition because when someone does object to that rhetoric, that merely puts a face on this imaginary enemy, someone this "leader" can point to and say, "there, that's the person I warned you about." It plays right into their hands. It's why these legal charges against Trump only bolster his support.
Very observant and profound. 🧐
Yep. Christianity (and most religions, in fact) in a nutshell... invent a malady, convince people that they are sick from that malady, propose an imaginary cure and then you have devotion.... who wouldn't adore and respect a cure provider?
Enforced law against a former president. No enforcement of law against a sitting president. No enforcement of laws at our border or in our cities. Sounds good
@@Lucas-jy7cv MAGA tears are the best tears.
Does anyone know what “Nazi” means? It is the abbreviation of the German word, Nazionaliste, meaning Nationalist. The Nazis were White Christian Nationalists. Sound familiar?
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP, or National Socialist German Workers’ Party). The term ‘Nazi’, an abbreviation of National Socialist devised by a journalist. Better run for the hills and hide from whitey.
And they treated LBGTQ people like vermin, imprisoned, or killed all the leftists they could catch and campaigned on a platform of Christianity and traditional values. Remind you of anyone?
There is a Nazi inside all of us ......we are the worst animals of this planet ...
Actually it is derived from National Socialists. Hitler's party was officialy the NSDAP (NAtionalsoZIalistische deutsche arbeiterpartei). Which translates as the Nationalsocialist German Workersparty. The whole socialist thing was just windowdressing as the nazis saw actual socialists (let alone communists) as mortal enemies. There is no doubt however that the vast majorty of nazi's were in fact christian at least nominally. And the anti-semitism they espoused, was of course based on a long-standing christian tradition, so to speak.
Actually, Nazi is shortened from National Socialist … in German, Nationalsozialist. And, actually the Nazi‘s wanted the church subordinate to the government. In the end, the effect was the same, though. Just want to make sure the history is accurately reflected here.
No, there is not a double standard by the right. As far as the right is concerned, there is only one rule; the rules are what ever we say when ever we say them. Magic.
Tell bannon that right now
Great interview! Looking forward to the documentary.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
Bertrand Russell
I love Bert.
The Internet is a fascism-destroying phenomenon.
@@toughenupfluffy7294
Or the exact opposite. Depends on how you look at it.
Look out! There's one hiding under your bed!
I look forward to seeing her film. Great interview.
This reminds me of a revision, or a copy of the 1600s English Monarchy and the equally powerful Church of England....the very institutional government we fought to get out of and obtain our freedom by creating a country by the people and for the people.
"People who the 'knowledge economy' has often left behind, i think for many of these people they have legitimate grievances, but he weaponizes those grievances and he's not working toward real solutions." THIS THIS THIS.
Nazi is short for national socialist. The Nazis were considered progressive in their time.
Good people go to a text and make a good religion. Bad people go to the same text and make a bad religion.
Simplistic, but you get the drift...
Based on what Katherine was saying, it looks like we really need to be much more aware of what's going on. It's embarrassing to see corporate media play this weird game of trying to almost, kinda, sorta report real news but still do it in such a way to appease their masters. I think most of them know that the Republican party is burnt toast this year and they don't know what to do. Way too many independents calling them out. Support independent media !!!
BTW, Atheist here.. love your shows !
Civics101: Reminder that *election winners* make the laws, determine the punishments, set the tax brackets, create the budgets, and shape the judiciary. So please go to your local county Democratic Party headquarters and offer your support, time, energy, enthusiasm, friendship, skills, talents, and encouragement to help the BLUE party win elections. Offer to organize your local Democratic precinct to help get out the vote for Dems. Meet your neighbors. Support Dems.
An individual has never passed a law, only parties pass laws, rarely they are bipartisan, but mostly it takes a party. Support the blue party!
See the Blue voter guide.
Not smart
God is authoritarian.
Naturally. He was invented by authoritarians. He is a tool to beat down and control people
Exactly and there is nothing wrong with authoritarianism since is just a form of governance.
@@RussianOccupier190 it's bad for everyone who is not on the authoritarian side. Which is pretty much most of society.
@@SteveEwe so? Fuck the opposition
@@RussianOccupier190 Well, with that attitude, why are you bothering to have a conversation with me?
Thank God for The Thinking Atheist. No pun intended
Thinking atheist?
God is the problem. Not my problem, your problem.
Your comment didn't contain a pun, so no pun taken.
Katherine Stewart - lovely lady, smart, engaging - sense of humour. Must be a powerful book.
I would like to see you interview Dr. Bandy Lee (if you haven't already).
Seth, you do great interviews!👍💙💙💙🥰✌
Thank you Seth
There's nothing more dangerous than someone that thinks they have God on their side.
🎯 It makes them brave as hell willing to commit any atrocity in the deluded belief some reward supposedly awaits them........
Theism if one is honest is more dangerous to mankind than nuclear weapons. A rational person would not employ nukes = but a Fundie would if they believed their "God" wanted it that way........ Theism at its' core = is a death cult.
Seneca the Younger - 'Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful'
This was a very eye-opening video podcast! I write and advocate extensively about what you covered in the video and the documentary. With that said, there is a lot that is relevant but hidden in plain sight. Hope we can continue this conversation.
These people who think they are serving Christ by supporting trump are flying right in the face of Revelations which is exactly the reference they use to support him...That actually adds validity to Revelations....Ouch my brain hurts.👍🙏🇨🇦
So true, there is no good Christian King of the World in the Bible's predictions for "the last days" only a lawless dictator who deceives Christians, throws truth to the ground and changes laws and times, wanting to be worshipped as the son of man. Geez, can't they read?
The people burning books really believe that they're the good guy in the story.
It is mindboggling.
Ok. Billionaires owns the country, land and big companies. Billionaires have politicians, specially republicans in their pockets. They are hanging around with Supreme Court judges at least six of them. - What can you do?
Theocratic autocracy, with christofacism. Watching trump talk about religion is as funny as Rhonda santis trying to smile.
Historian here. Fascism is quite an exaggeration. Authoritarian Theocracy is what it would be. Fascism has become a colloquialism in Trump era America. It is thrown around too lightly. We all need to be as scared of Theocracy. Look at what happened to Iran.
Claiming an unproven god should be respected is laughable to me.
Many believers don't care if god is proven or not, as long as they get to instill the fascism THEY seem obsessed with.
Yay, another person to actually do the research and show that very authoritarian systems are being foisted on us using religion and the grievances of those who have lost out as manufacturing declined cynically to further their aims.
Christo-Fascism
Love Katherine's work - read both books & looking forward to the next.
Thanks for focusing on the economic issues.
The Power Worshippers is a great book. Well worth the read.
Lord, please save me from your followers.
Rob Reiner is a great filmmaker. You ever seen A Few Good Men?
Who was an office when Jeffrey Epstein was unalived
Bill Barr said, "This case is very personal to me." I bet. Barr's father gave Epstein his big break at the Dalton School in NYC
Google epstein trump rape 13 year Olds court deposition. It's true, and the girl dropped charges after her family received death threats. Her sworn court deposition can be read in detail, how trump threatened her, and how epstein and trump argued over who would rape her first for her virginity. Read it
Yes they're comparing his bloated corpse to a first century Galilean cult leader.
Biden is not bloated.
@@maxpolaris99 never said he was.
@@maxpolaris99👈MAGA TRAITOR TEARS
Thank you! ✌️
AMEN!! Well put!!! Thanks SO MUCH for this!
This is excellent, and I will be checking out these books first chance I get. I also will follow this channel.
However, to put it mildly, I have a major gripe.
This current Christian Nationalist movement has been SEVERAL DECADES in the making. I finally saw it firsthand myself in the 90s when I was a Christian, and it made me step away from most of Christianity at least 10 years before I finally quit it completely.
Why are so many folks just now seeing it?! Why are they only now talking about it?!
Some of us have been too nice--commendable as the effort may have been--while others have been too antagonistic. Of the latter, so many were ignorant of Christianity, its nuances, and its current fragmented state, yet ridiculed all Christians as if they were all the same.
Foul, disgusting, and treasonous (yes, it is) as this Christian Nationalism is, from what I saw over the years, this strong push was INEVITABLE!
I was called paranoid by many people further left than I am now. They probably wouldn't remember those conversations, and in my age, I've forgotten what those people even looked like. This is one of many times in my life that I wish I'd been wrong.
Rant over and documented.
Great post. We need more of this kind of dialogue
I’m so sick of being saturated with the Christian mythology and hypocrisy!!
Decades since I've heard someone say Social Capitol. Let us rebuild America's accounting of social responsibility. Trump couldn't carry his con game this far if the media wasn't so busy distroying Social Capital for profit.
Anyone else read the sign at 23:41 as "Thank you lord president trump for Jesus"?
*"Sunshine makes the best disinfectant", how do you like that?*
*Let the Sunshine In...*
🙂❤
Separating Dem and Repub is not truth telling - both parties are not working for working class.
So I want to get a few thoughts from any of you here (mostly for you fellow atheists).
And I wanna see if I’ve been unfair with assessing christians.
So you know how lately (or for the longest time) people who advertise themselves as people who follow the teachings of Christ, they have the worst qualities of a human being, exactly the opposite to what Jesus teaches…yet they still call themselves Christians.
I say you’re only a christian if you follow to the best of your ability that which you worship.
So in all fairness, why call yourself a christian if you’re no way near of what a Christian should be.
Example : if a vegan snacks on a drum stick, but 99% the time they eat vegetables, they’re just not a vegan.
One should call themselves a label if that is what do as a practice.
Like, I can’t call myself a martial artist if I don’t practice martial arts.
Back to Christians-
If these people don’t follow the BARE MINIMUM BASICS of what qualifies as a Christian, yet they label themselves as that….are they really actual Christians?
That is my question.
They're Christo-Fascists, people who promote Fascism by using religion to fool the gullible into Fascism.
The Nazis, had the help and support of the Vatican until the Nazis no longer needed them.
They know they are not really Christians (actually adhere to Jesus' teachings). It has a totally different meaning and some readily admit it. This is my observation. Is never heard anyone call themselves a Christian when I was a kid (and an atheist since 7 yo) and then I heard it popping up all over on the past 20 years and I kept thinking why are some people constantly calling themselves that like who cares? I don't go running around calling myself a Catholic (religion of my dad). Little did I know it was a declaration of a cult. The more they screamed about they're Christian and it was blatant in politics, the more I realized how ugly and awful they are. 🤷🏽♀️ I think when Obama was elected was when it really hit home. I was never a Christian, so just my take.
Yes.
And I say this to theists all the time who profess that the bad ones 'aren't true christians': the implication is that 'true christians' cannot possibly be mean, unsympathetic, lack empathy, unkind, hypocritical etc - in other words, human. That's just nonsense - demonstrably so.
And I say all _that_ as a former christian of many years. It's not for nothing that in the bible the apostle paul (i think) writes to _christians_ warning them about the very attitudes you describe. The attitudes we see today. It's not a bug, it's a feature of feeling you're absolved of sins past present and future.
There are Christians and then there are Christians. I'm an atheist, but I volunteer for a solar panel charity run by Christians, who are all very concerned about climate change. I haven't discussed with them all, but I'm pretty sure they're all down with the LGBTQIA+ community. Many Christians are good people. Not all (even in the USA) are mouth frothing right wingers.
@outermarker5801 Yes, it's very confusing, but where are ALL these "real christians"
protesting that their "good name" is being impugned by ALL these "fake christians"?
Are they also being oppressed, or are they accomplices?
When Trump was asked about his knowledge of the Bible he simply said: " 2 Corinthians, thats the whole ballgame " ?????
two Corinthians walk into a bar...
@@wsplatinumthen Socrates asked them a bunch of questions.
I’m having a hard time holding back from telling my family that I don’t share their beliefs about religion or their political views about trump. I want to have a good relationship with my family but all this stuff is just not for me.
I feel that as well. My emotions are tied to how much trauma I have repressed for their sake. Blame the victim and victim blames herself is a real thing. Perhaps they will never change, yet we have probably repressed our own needs and values for them to dominate all discussion for far too long.
I've had to drop friends in trumps cult, and with family they know my beliefs and I know there's. But we don't bring politics up. You may lose them if you do, better to wait until after election and maybe trump will go away this time. Trump ain't winning.
I really really wish my in-laws could understand this.
"What's the Matter With Kansas' comes to mind.
She said she wants to extend the democracy except write a book involving both parties. She can't extend her party into her book.
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
"Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."
"No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever."
"Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society."
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."
Thomas Jefferson
We've seen it in Russia as well.
Yeah and it has worked out for the best with the anti lgbtq degeneracy laws
"In every age and in every country the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." Thomas Jefferson
"Faith" is required to "Believe in Lies" and why religions demand "Faithfulness" to maintain Power & Control over “believers” who will Force their Theocratic Fascism on everyone and terrorize non-believers who can see through their Lies...
Read: "God And The Fascists" by Karlheinz Deschner (1965 German/2013 English) - "Gott mit uns”
We need our lead water lines replaced here in Michigan, but the city is putting up Christmas lights for four months and taking them down for another four months.
Fascism is not an exaggeration. There will be attrocities the first week.
4:30 I agree I think many of the MAGA movement honestly do want that kind of government, not a liberal democracy.
I have started referring to Christian nationalists as Nationalist Christians so that I can then (and yes, I know I'm being immature) shorten it to Nat-Cs.
Wow that trailer had all the christian figures I ACTUALLY like and respect! Phil Vischer, Skye Jathani, Russell Moore, David French! Im a staunch atheist, but I like listening to The Holy Post with Phil Vischer and Skye Jathani sometimes.
Jesus was not Christian. Most christianity is Paulism. What would Christianity feel like if the holy book was condensed to the utterances and actual acts of its Godhead? I look foward to reading your reseach.
Read the Jefferson Bible available at bookstores or online.
Both Jesus and Paul are fictional characters. They obviously never existed. They are just Roman Imperial propaganda characters. The Roman Empire never died: it transformed into the Vatican
Imagine that these people ran on a "What would Jesus do" platform. It would transform the U.S., and hopefully, the world.
At 41, i left church. I now see how it harms us a society more than it helps us. Could Christianity be redeemed? Maybe parts of it and if the practicioners really changed their ways, but there's too much power, influence, money, and control to give up.
I sometimes think the US would need to fall economically, i mean really fall, before a better version of Christianity could arise. You would likely see the greedy and hateful people leave Christianity while the loving and caring believers would shine.
Nationalism and religion don't mix. It's a match made in hell.
It will probably become more difficult for her to slide into conservative spaces undetected after the film drops.
Where are the moderators? There's a grift happening in the comments.
Yeah, don't feed the trolls, y'all. Report for spamming/scamming, instead. 🖖💚
I’m an independent voter who has tended to vote Republican since the Reagan years. January 6 disgusted me. More than that, the Trump apologists in the House and Senate have turned me off to the party. Actually the extremes of both parties seem to be taking over, and I’m frustrated and disgusted with the politics of it all. I find it harder and harder to find politicians to vote for.
Can you point to extremes on the left? Some examples?
@@randibgoodBoth parties have gone further to the right since Reagan.
@@randibgoodThere aren’t any, though conservatives will point out “woke” madness and runaway identity-politics with the left. Except today’s Democrats aren’t really left, though Republicans will paint them that way.
@@joeanthony7759that's not an answer. that's a pathetic attempt to both sides this issue when there's clearly no one on the left that's extreme. it's one thing to say a group of people don't believe the same thing you do. it's entirely another to equate them with a group of people that are clearly a danger to society. do better.
@@intuitionz1198 It is very celar answer and he's right. There is no far left in the US these days, only far right.
Katherine brought up a very good point that religion is used by every country in every era to do ungodly evils.
My cousin said: "Thanks God I'm an atheist"
Question I always ask an atheist is when did they morally compromise that was the result of changing their
I am guessing that this movie will FLOP in a HUGE WAY. Just sayin'. I had never heard of it until someone on the radio mentioned it in passing. Maybe it has ALREADY FLOPPED. Like I said, I had never heard of it.
My brother in law said (about Trump's outspoken hateful rhetoric), that's what i like about him!" This in law previously voted for Obama.
The Kingdom of God was never a political idea. But what would Jesus know?
Why is Ms. Stewart smiling so much?
#1. VOTE BLUE!
😂😂😂
The Democrat Party needs to feel the full force of RICO statutes being brought against it
voting red thanks
@@maxpolaris99sit down, Ivan.
@@j19n7200better ded then red.
It's *_FASCISM._* And that fact that we are too pathetically weak-kneed to even call it by name does not bode well for our resisting it.
Because the people of our country aren't taught proper history about our own countries past experiences, we know even LESS about the history of all the other countries from around the world, and more importantly how people are made to live under an authoritarian regime which is led by a 1 man ONLY, Dictator,such as those living in Saudi Arabia, Russia, North Korea, China, etc...and along with US, there are quite a few other countries fighting to take the citizens living in their countries rights, freedoms, well their whole way of life under a democracy destroyed and strongly replaced with extreme totalitarian regimes all around the world which have these rules in every country living in one. FOR CERTAIN the wanna e dictatoe for our country, Trump has clearly said on DAY 1: HE will tear up the Constitution and rewrite it according to HIS rules! That wont be completed EVER...btw. It also means Congress will no longer be needed and neither will the SCOTUS bc he will make all the rules that he will not have to follow, AT ALL, EVER! But, we, his slaves, will including EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN bc we will all FINALLY BE TREATED EQUAL...HE WILL OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE INCL OUR PERSONAL GUNS, PROPERTY, KIDS, SPOUSES, EVERY BIT OF MONEY THAT THE RICH OLIGARCHS OWN, ALL CORPORATIONS, ALL CHURCHES ASSETS AND LEADERS! E V E R Y THING!! GUARANTEED!! American citizens will not be able to leave the country..Not even yhose with private jets and second homes outside the U.S. He will own our military and the militia people fighting for him to return to power esp those who hes been calling "Prisoners of war" bc of J6 WILL NOT BE REWATDED NOR NEEDED BC ONLY THE VERY BEST IN THE ACTIVE MILITARY WILL BE CHOSEN TO BE HIS PERSONAL SECURITY!! NOT anyone whose been caught and small militias are so far beneath him...HIS ONLY EQUALS OF SORT, WILL BE who he already brags are his bffs now, other Dictators!! He will do exactly what the Saudi prince recently did in his country...after destrpyong the constitution he will pull out of NATO, he will order HIS active military to round up Bezos, Musk, the Koch bros, Zuckerberg, etc... thats WHY he reduced taxes for the very richest Americans bc its extremely easy to round up a few billionaires holding all the wealth of our country, and whe the Prince of Saudi had those in that country get brought to the Ritz to sign over ALL THEIR MONEY, who btw were his own family members we the only ppl with any money, and they HAD TO DO IT OR GET SHOT IN THE HEAD RIGHT THERE!, Trump will probably have our richest in America brought to Mar a lago, i betcha, and FORCE THEM TO SIGN OVER ALL THEIR MONEY AND ASSETS! And he understands where and how some have their stash of money in other banks or laundered in other friendly countries with the means to retreive all that cash, too!! No doubt! Then he will dend out hos military to collect EVERY WEAPON FROM AMERICANS EVERYWHERE DOOR TO DOOR AND WITHOUT ANY SYMPATHY FOR ANY OF US! Dud anyone think ppl that live under Dictators in those countries can own anything ESPECIALLY ANY GUNS OF ANY SORT?? HA! You're foolish to believe that unless you are in the active military, guns wont be permitted to any regular American citizen...NONE of the ppl living in these countries can own ANYTHING, not homes, not stocks, not companies, not dignity, not churches, not personal weapons, not themselves we would ALL BE King Trumps property and FORGET PARDONING ANYONE ESP J6ers...YOU GOT CAUGHT, YOU'RE SUCKERS TO HIM, NOT HEROS !! REMEMBER? PLUS, he will say that you didnt even finish the job he ordered you to do, ANYWAYS!! YOU ARE THE VERY LAST PEOPLE HE WOULD EVER BEFRIEND OR GIVE A THOUGHT TOWARDS !! He cant stand the people who he has to ACT kind to who he refers to HIS BASE ALREADY... HE HATES AMERICA! HE HATES ALL AMERICANS !! The only ppl that wont be thrown into the lions den MIGHT BE Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, and Steve Bannon...and some of his Russian buds Putin had working for him inside the Oval Office and the White House! He recently said that "if he wins in 2024, that will be the last election!! He said that in an interview on national tv! Which gets satellite revieved in Russia and the likes...for now anyways...He wants to be the richest of all the dictators around the world! And then...putin will take it from hom or maybe he plans on giving US to Putin anyways...he is old and brand new at being a dictator of the most powerful country in the WORLD so...Putins smarter and much better at it BY FAR!!! THAT my fellow Americans, is what you are fighting FOR when you stand behind Trump and vote Republican today!! All Tepublicans even your state and local legislatures and Governors are All CORRUPT AND ANTI DEMOCRACY! People, the ONLY teason Americas been the leading country around the world and respected and followed by MANY countries people and their leaders IS BECAUSE WE INVENTED THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT FIRST!! ONCE we vote against keeping democracy as our system of govt, we WILL FALL and NEVER BE ABLE TO GO BACK TO BEING A DEMOCRACY EVER AGAIN! AMERICA HELPS THOSE COUNTRIES WHOSE LEADERS CHEAT THEM OUT OF THEIR DEMOCRACY...WHO WOULD HELP US???? NO ONE COULD!! DO YOU GET IT NOW?? THIS IS NOT A DRILL and we cant change out minds once democracy is voted out!! Ever!! What will we tell our children and grandchildren? That WE VOTED TO TAKE AWAY THEIR FREEDOM, THEIR RIGHTS, THEIR DEMOCRACY FOREVER!!
You are hysterical. Figure out a way to calm down and re-examine.
calm down dude.
@@joeanthony7759No, it's time the U.S. revs up...everything I said in my comment should be screamed from every rooftop! once we vote out democracy, it's impossible to get back! So, please just look up how ppl have to live in the countries whose dictators Trump admires bc they run them with an IRON Fist...he said it, not me! THINK for damn sake!