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hoppe the states people can claw ther state back for the fundamentalist nutjobbs.. before it goess to civil war , wich considering how happy the other super powers be to use that to teach it a 'lesson' ...could realy cause global waste of resources that even if some dont care about other people , they sure care about having air to breath and fresh water to drink :/
@@johnboettcher1962 all the more reason the actual americans ''aka those that cares about the secular core of its idea'' needs to claw ther government back while the fundamentalists drooling over its oversized military machine still needs to keep some sort of 'appearance' up... :/ otherwise ther behaviour risks forcing the hand of what was allies and foes alike considering the risks of such reality divorced motivations ...being pared with one of the largest mass destruction stockpiles ontop of most environment destructive industries on the planet :(
@@thelord3561 then why does he fail to actually do that for anyone ever? He even seems to cause undue anxieties in some of his followers because of his threat of hell.
@@inszel They're not. But nice try though. But back on topic, we Christians need to keep our religion out of politics. Otherwise, we are GOING AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
As a 64 yr old Englishman, I grew up envious and jealous of the USA, as did pretty much everyone in the UK and Europe. We wanted to be like you, even as our parents resented the spread of US business and culture. America seemed to have so much to offer the world and if it desperately needed to tackle equality and civil rights, at least the process was underway. Today, the USA is no longer seen as a wonderous place. It is almost universally disliked and feared. Like every nation, it has done great things and made mistakes but the sea change in outside opinion came with Trump and the Christian right movement. I visit the States a lot and I still love the country and the people but I can tell you my friends that the rest of the world is genuinely frightened of what will happen if the most powerful nation on Earth becomes a theocracy.
Just remember, if that ever happens, we can be saved. Most of the current population doesn't want to live in a theocracy, but we may need some help fighting the religious wrong if they ever take over our country. Please invade if that happens.
@@david2869 Lol. I'm not sure we still have the capability for that. It didn't work so well last time. Seriously though. I hope saner minds prevail. I love the US and I would hate to see it destroy itself.
Europe was pretty much disgusted with the US during the Vietnam War also and for good reason. I don't blame people around the world for being concerned about the crazy things happening here but I honestly do not believe we will ever have a theocracy. Evangelicals are a minority here. They sure are causing a lot of trouble but they can't succeed.
@@---Dana---- That's good to know. My concern and that of many people I know, is the increasing union between right wing Christians and the Republicans. Courting them may seem like a vote winner but we should remember that the Nazis didn't seize power in coup, they were elected because enough people thought they had answers and too many thought they couldn't do much harm. I really do wish you and all citizens of the US well. You have a wonderful country that needs to be cared for.
@@Outspoken.Humanist 28% of voters are Republican and a recent poll said 1/4 of them do not support Trump. The Roe v Wade decision is getting the anti-Republican vote out. 🤞
In the late 1980s - 1990 I began performing ( I was an orchestral musician) at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale. D. James Kennedy always came out after our performances and sold his bullshit to the audience. I don't remember exactly when, but eventually he began promoting the "Reclaiming America For Christ" movement which, I assume, morphed into what is now called "Project Blitz". I quit performing there shortly after, and that was when I became militantly opposed to religion and began sounding the alarm. Everyone thought I was nuts. Well, here we are.
For me as german Project BLITZ is definitely hinting at the Nazi Blitzkrieg strategy, used in invating Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, even Russia. So it shows their cloceness to Nazi-onalist ideology, their sympathy with totalitarianism - and their affinity to use violence to achieve their goals. In contrast to the US variant of fascism, I never heard in Germany of the 1930s about a so fervent support by the clergy as the self-proclaimed US clergy practices it. Sympathizing - yes, because authoritarianism fitts to the rule of the invisible Strict Father in the sky, but such an equalling of the Leader to a divinely sent person up to declaring him the new messiah himself - never heard that.
Note regarding "Blitzkrieg": In order to achieve these rapid successe in the first few days, the german soldiers were provided with "Pervitin", which was not much different from crystal meth. That allowed them to march and fight 2,3,4 days in a row, where the other army's soldiers were totally exhausted after a day or so. So these people identify themselves with meth-heads. So if you meet some guy speaking positively of Project Blitz, tell them these people admire literally an army of junkies.
That scumbag died in 2007. One of Billy Graham’s grandson now runs the buy-bull indoctrination center there. They stiffed three bands I've played with. As a guitarist, I get MANY offers to play gigs at churches. My answer is always the same, 'I don't appease, nor preform, for terrorists, no matter how much money they offer.'.
Otherwise just known as fascism. The fascisms of the 1940s were not bereft of religious supremacy. The palingenetic part of palingenetic ultranationalism hinged on a glorious past which was divinely mandated.
@@rainbowkrampus AKA the chose people. (I agree with you) This fascist movement is using Christianity to say, "We are the chosen ones and others are demons/lost souls." The sad part is Christianity starts with Jesus Christ, a Jewish man. Christianity=Jesus, Jesus=Jewish, thus Christianity=Jewish. But some, and increasingly, Christians hate Jewish people.
"Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise." ~Sam Pascoe
U.S. Constitution, Article 6, Paragraph 3: "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
One of my “favorite” (sarcastic) examples of homophobia in the religious right is the claim that “homosexuality is a bad lifestyle because it has a high rate of suicide and death!!!!!” Like… gee, I sure do wonder why that is… such a mystery…
It's always the same, "Look how much better we're doing than the people we're oppressing. That proves we're superior!" I hear this a lot from the likes of Matt Walsh and John Doyle.
@@thelord3561 You are referring to Jesus, so I wonder. Does "fallen short" mean made a mistake, or something like that? But even so, your username is "The Lord", and you are not God, so I wonder do you consider yourself to be a prophet if you use a name like that?
Aron, I gotta say thank you for helping me put the last nail in my deconversion some three or four years ago. I was never a creationist, but your one and only style helped me out a lot. From you I moved on to Hitchens and between the two of you I feel I’ve grown wiser and a better person. I held some views that baffle me to think back on. You are certainly (un)doing god’s work and I hope you know the positive impact you make.
Your story is close to mine-Aron Ra, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and others really helped me to walk away from 33 years of Christianity. Cheers to you mate-I’m right with you.
Well done, Aron. I found that speech to be as profound and on point as some of the ones I've heard the late Cristopher Hitchens give. I'm hoping messages like this one help reach a large enough group that we are able to turn the tide against all the evil that's been going on in the government recently. I know there are a few people I plan to share this with. Thank you so much for all the hard work you do.
Don't know how he believes the left is about preserving rights. If you look at many left-wing poltical groups/Indvidual's, they support the freedom to end pregnancies and marry who you want but look to control everything else. They want to control whether you put a dangerous chemical(since saying the other word will make you tube censor me) into your body (funny how liberals love protecting big pharma's profit margin in this instance), what weapons you can own to protect yourself (especially when evidence the state is so blatantly unconcerned with our wellbeing), what you can say online or in public, and look to have control over what you can use and buy. So, it's by no stretch to say the left is no more opposed to group think and top-down control than the right wing. I don't see much of a difference between the delusions of socialists and the delusions of religious fanatics.
From what I’ve heard it was voted down because they realized that if they take that right away then they would have the opportunity to take more rights away. Does that sound accurate?
Strictly speaking, the referendum wasn't "to ban abortion", it was "to allow the (right wing) state legislature to decide cases related to abortion". Currently, the right to abortion is guaranteed by the state constitution, full stop. The movement, if it had passed, would've changed that. So, basically, yeah. It would have established a really dangerous precedent.
4:25 as a person that lives in Kansas I think I did my part in helping the banning of abortion fail. All though I did use fallacies to do so but war is war. I got my dad to vote no or at least I think I did by using the argument that abortion is bodily choice and if forced pregnancy can happen whats to stop forced vaccination. Yes I used slippy slop but I felt it was the best way to get a hard conservative anti vaxer to think.
I don’t think that’s a slippery slope so much as it’s a version of reductio ad absurdum or getting him to understand the consequences of granting any government that kind of power over people. Either way, good on you!
Yeah if they get their way they will take us back to the Bronze Age and or 17th century Puritan Massachusetts. They pine for the 1950s were the white guy's rule went unchallenged but they would love to also go back to the 1850s for obvious reasons.
Thank you Aron Ra for all that you do. I wish I could get my one Republican friend to break the brain lock but I can't get through. He lives in NY so his capacity for damage is muted but it still weighs heavily on me.
try looking up methods of deprogramming friends/family from a cult. it really does work, especially if they still trust you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming
@@thomasneal9291 i'd be careful using such ideas, as politics is often just opinions. thus treating them like they are brainwashed might just push them further away.
I didn't get a real education because of fundamental religion. I can't ducking stand the thought of someone else going through what I did. They didn't give me the respect of a normal human because I'm a woman either.
"repeat teen pregnancies" So nothing's changed in 30 years. I'm born & raised Texan and had my teens in the late 80s. Most of my fellow classmates were pregnant before the age 17. Out of the 12 girls in my homeroom, only 4 of us were not pregnant while in HS. I knew one girl who had her 2nd child when she was 18. Sex Ed in my school district wasn't sex ed; it taught avoidance. We were shown slides of STDs (was called VD back then), and that was it. They didn't even teach we girls about menustration.
And we are a Christian country too, yet we don't have rampant teen pregnancies. Start teaching children to think about something useful than sex, maybe?
@@IkarusKommt Sex is natural, and a natural part of the human experience. Proper fact based sex education is vital, and we should encourage children to learn about it and all areas of biology. America isn't a Christian country. The constitution is a secular document and violates numerous biblical laws.
@@IkarusKommt At a time when sexual urges and social approval are the strongest influencing factors in a human's behavior, you're going to tell them to just not think about it? Are you really that stupid?
I was a practicing Christian for 25 years.....my daughter was born with multiple birth defects....I buried myself in the Bible to try and understand why GOD...did this to her......after the most disgusting answers from evangelicals...the only peace I received was knowing that I controlled what happened. Thank you Aron
If God were real and we were all fearfully and wonderfully made, then cancer wouldn’t exist. It’s the only category of disease caused by one’s genetic code screwing up.
@@horizonblack -- WE were christians until we read the bibleS. If only more said believers would actually READ the book they claim to be the "Perfect word of god". But they don't. Instead, they go to their place of worship and have the hand-picked parts read TO them.
@@thelord3561 -- Honestly, do yourself a HUGE favor and Read the bibles with an Open Mind and ask all the tough questions and do all the critical thinking while reading it. Just think, IF there were a good loving god, he gave us this Brain for a reason. He would WANT us to use that Open Mind and ask all the tough questions because at the very least, it would weed out all the False gods, right? Only fake gods would NOT want us to gain Knowledge, because then the Con is Exposed. So remember, the Truth is made stronger by questions; only Lies and Errors are Weakened by them. “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with Sense, Reason, and Intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei Here's to hoping you and all other believers overcome the FEAR of asking questions that indoctrination/religion instills.
Dear Aron, Thank you for what you do. As a trans person who has followed you since I was in middle school, it is really moving to me to hear even the basic lines of respect and support. Hope you and yours are well, cheers.
@@thelord3561 Jesus isn't real, but if he was, he made me in his image. As a trans man. cause his mom (Mary) gave birth to her genetic clone (virgin birth) meaning that Jesus had XX chromosomes and probably a vagina. Jesus was a trans man.
I live in the UK and have watched your videos for years. As much as our politics is broken I watch the politics in America with a mixture of amusement and terror thinking I am so glad we haven't got that bad YET!! Watching this video and hearing you speak recently online there is only TWO things I can say and that is GOOD LUCK and keep fighting the good fight, because if they win, America and the world will pay sooner than later.
Yep, it's the same blend of fascination & horror watching from Australia. At least we got rid of our dangerous happy clappy Xtian PM at the last election, but we can never relax or our secular ideals will be eroded while we aren't paying attention.
Here in Canada we are starting to see this awful American import seeping it's way into our politics. We have at least three Trump wannabes now... Fortunately I live in Quebec, now a secular society were we still remember what theocracy was like merely the generation before mine. And we barely got out of twenty years of conservatism disguised as liberalism and separatism, turning us into the poorest province in the country. We seem to be getting out of it for now; but Vigilance is the price of Freedom. However if the US becomes History's biggest banana republic comes November, no one in the world will be safe.
I can agree with him up until he talks about the left being about preserving rights. If you look at many left-wing poltical groups/Indvidual's, they support the freedom to end pregnancies and marry who you want but look to control everything else. They want to control whether you put a dangerous vaccine into your body (funny how liberals love protecting big pharma's profit margin in this instance), what weapons you can own to protect yourself (especially when evidence the state is so blatantly unconcerned with our wellbeing), what you can say online or in public, and look to have control over what you can use and buy. So, it's by no stretch to say the left is no more opposed to group think and top-down control than the right wing. I don't see much of a difference between the delusions of socialists and the delusions of religious fanatics.
Thanks for all you do, Aron! If MTG and Boebert have their way, Christian Nationalism will reign supreme over our democracy, and we can't let that happen!
Thankfully we have a constitution to prevent them from getting their way. The first amendment’s religious protections swings both ways. Gov’t can’t force religion on us and conversely they can’t forbid us from worshipping or not. But things like facts don’t matter to them.
I’m very happy to see this being done in Kentucky. I lived in Kentucky for a few years and where they might say ‘you need JESUS’, I say ‘they need ARON RA’
You are a very stubborn hard working sincere gentleman with a gentlemans temperament.these clowns hate it when people don't loose it when discussing a subject, they want you to rant and scream like they do to hide the fact that they are clueless , you just smash them with logic , facts and good nature . Long may you continue sir .
@@seriouslyshortofnormal925 The even FUNNIER part is that both sides are guilty of these accusations. But sides deny reality in order to push a certain view people down everyone's throats and shout and scream at the other side with blind rage. Aron is no exception to this. He will deny the BIOLOGICAL FACT that there are ONLY 2 GENDERS in order to placate and fit in with a certain view point the left has been pushing for about a decade now even though HE KNOWS BETTER! The Conservatives do this exact same thing but with religion. You've just been trained to see one side's flaws over the others. When in fact both sides are controlled equally and want the same thing. Power, Control and a Totalitarian System where no one can speak their minds or have opinions. Both sides are guilty. And neither side wants to see you or me speak the truth or be free. The country we once knew is LONG GONE my friend. And you better be prepared for if (More than likely it will be WHEN instead of if now) SHTF!
The more I know of Christian pseudo-history and the irrational belief mythology is real, the more disgusted I become in Christian subversion in government, education, healthcare and social structures.
As an Australian, i thank you murica. We see what you are and unanimously said "yeah, fk that" at our last election in may. Right wing politics is all but extinct AUSTRALIA WIDE, in every. Single. State. History has been made. Not to mention that there is as much non religious in this country as every sect of Christianity combined. Every 4 years our census results show religion declining by 8-10% and no religion climbing by the same amount. By 2026 the non religious will be the vast majority in this country, and we have you to thank for that. Everything you do, we do the opposite and as a result we are a true secular nation.
Aron, you're genius at using words! Like a George Carlin style, yet more Tim Minchin poetry. Touches of them, but your own fantastic style! I'm in Kingman, AZ, (yes,lol, I know you know of it), sweating that our votes may get dumped. 👍🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌
Aron, I have had no hesitation in sharing this video with everyone, wherever in the world they are, who cares about peace, reason and progress. All power to your elbows. (I'm Scottish and describe myself as a democratic socialist). Freedom!
Amazing presentation, as always. You should be sharing a stage with Biden. There are a lot of important issues in this presentation that really need to be addressed in the mainstream, especially the gutting of education in conservative states. Children being robbed of knowledge, facts, scientific curiosity and intellectual honesty is just horrible.
Thank you so much for this Aron Ra. I always enjoy your lectures, and I learn a lot. I certainly hope Beto wins this November. Texas cannot afford another second of that POS Greg Abbott.
It's a chilling, chilling story. In the UK, things aren't *quite* so bad, but, still, when I started teaching (in a catholic school because pupil behaviour is generally better) within the year I was called into the Head Master's office and had to explain what on earth I'd been teaching the kids about Evolution! Then there was the time when we had widespread flooding here (including the site of Glouster Cathedral) and the archbishop of Canterbury no less went on record saying it had happened because of gay marriage! Brainless bastards. Keep fighting the good fight, Aron.
No what we need is a strong socialist party like we had before Reagan took office the dems are weak at best bought by the elite at worst we need a real party of the people and the working class.
@The Cycle Basically: far-right theocracy where you're killed if you're LGBT, killed if you're atheist, and if you're a woman and you can bear children, you will be forcibly impregnated by the higher-ups in the theocracy. Oh, and women as a whole have 0 rights, afaik. I couldn't stand watching more than one episode. It's stressful to think about this country going that way.
I moved from Oklahoma to Denver Colorado and was shocked when the local news didn't have a segment on church activities like the norm in Oklahoma city. The church owns Oklahoma.
Thanks for coming to the Convention. Your speech was right on the money. And for being political... we have to or there won't be an America left. Thanks again Aron!
“woke ideology” is really just people who think we should care about other people. conversely, “anti-woke ideology” is not just people who say “we don’t care about other people”… it’s people who want to make it illegal for anyone to care about other people
Thank you Aaron Ra!!! We need to hear the truth, no matter how frightening it sounds. I would rather hear the ugly truth than pretty sounding lies! Thank you Aron Ra!!!
Even though I'm much further left than you, I'm always glad when you talk about politics. You're the one with the platform to actually move people to the left, not me. So even if the people whose minds you change only end up as center-leftists, I'll still be happy, because at least they're not authoritarian state-worshippers.
the left sadly is more focused on the state than the right at the moment. at least in the US. but the two wings can be both authoritarians and libertarians.
@@inszel I haven't seen that, usually the Left wings people I meet swing more libertarian as in demilitarization, and lowered execution rates as well as wanting people to have the right to believe different things, and the right wing people I talk to are more authoritarian as in bigger military and more executions, as well as talking about kicking people's asses if they disagree with something they say
@@inszel are you crazy. Dude republicans done away with roe. for control over women. making rape victims carry to term. incest carry to term. but sure it's the democrats. good whataboutism there. no difference.
If I started a private school that guaranteed absolutely no religious influence in it's curriculum, guaranteed comprehensive fact based sex education BEFORE the average age of puberty, taught only real science, included required courses on critical thinking at every grade level, and rewarded kids for acts of compassion both on and off campus (REAL rewards, not "attabois" and "attagrrls"), do you think I would have any enrollment? If so, what do you think parents would be willing to pay? What if I started the school in Texas? Or Kentucky? Or Mississippi? Florida?
@@BigRalphSmith It was a tongue in cheek cheek remark because the states you mentioned are very Christian overall and would not value the things you described for their children's education. Didn't think I'd really have to spell it all out but there ya go.
Excellent. Great summary. Between now and mid-october just about 6 weeks left, go to your Democratic party headquarters in your county and offer to help. Help in any way you can, we must elect Democrats local, state (state legislatures are immensely important for a billion reasons), and federal. Let's give Biden a bright blue Congress to shore up our democracy. 🌊⚖️🗽 Vote blue for the rule of law, social security, medicare, civil rights, voting rights, and the environment.
Democrats are less bad in this way but almost all are either "Christian" or say they are. We need open atheists. But those aren't likely to be good political candidates bc they're not as easily corruptible. Also, don't try to point out Mao's China or Stalin's Russia as examples of atheism, because the state literally was viewed as the deity there.
There are watchers of yours who don't want you talking about politics? Why not? You're great at it! This is the best description of the Fundamentalist Christian Theocracy threat to the nation I have heard yet!
Outstanding speech/ presentation. And I urge all Americans to not only vote in November but organise and mobilise as many friends and family to vote Democrat. The American experiment is hanging by a thread. I urge you my friends. Vote democrat in November. From a very concerned Britt. Thank you Aaron.You’re a shining light. Thanks.
The part about this speech where you talked about Trump trying to be a dictator, reminded me of the time when Trump said of President Xi "He was just appointed lifetime Presidency by the Communist Party, we should try that sometime". That phrase, no matter how "jokingly" Trump said it; should have been a RED FLAG to everyone. A sitting President of the USA should NEVER "joke" about something like that; even if it was "I said that to see how the 'leftist press' would run with it" . For me, the reality check moment on Trump was when he "took a knee" to Fauci , and Birx over the "Cough" that came from China, that he helped to fund by reopening off shore Bio-weapon research. Trump likes to cite the Dems, as being the ones that brought down all the lock downs and a FORCED VAX... We all watched on those press briefings as it all started under HIS WATCH, with him standing next to Fauci and Birx; then pivoting "we had a great economy , but we had to shut it all down". YOU, Mr. Trump, shut it all down, YOU set the precedent for what every Governor, Mayor, and all other levels of Government could do to the people of the USA, on TOP of what former President Bush did in 2001. It is clear that this Nation is in a power struggle between two forms of Absolute Dictatorship, instead of being the Independent, and FREE Nation that it is supposed to be. Whichever one wins this debate....I LOSE, I will be in a Nation that I served for ( US ARMY VET), that will see me as an "Undesirable".
This was beautiful. I am scared for this country, and I know that I'm the type of person the christo-fascists would gladly see dead. At the same time I refuse to live in the Handmaid's Tale universe. Not discounting the possibility I might have to go down literally fighting for my life one day.
The story about his wife charging her electric car is wild. Like I have my own criticisms when it comes to favoring electric cars over say, hybrids or biodiesel cars, but imagine making it about race. Incredible.
Kitten reporting! A bit lat late, but I'm here :) Hearing this after having just read in the news how and why Turkey is banning music festivals last minute because of "immorality", remembering an arrest of a singer a couple days ago because religious people were offended by a joke she made about a band member of hers, is quite painful. It does warm my heart to know people care and in some countries people can still speak out against legislation based on moral views of a supremacist group. And I assume that in Turkey people will speak out as well, despite there no longer being any free press and the police and army slamming down protests, supported by a fascist government that is supported by religious extremists, but I (and probably a lot of other people) feel powerless and all I hear from Turkey is what the press in my own country shows and it's sliding toward a theocratic dictatorship faster than anything I've ever seen. WWII isn't even a hundred years ago. There are still people alive who have been through it. Have we learned nothing? Fascism is never the road to progress but always the road to death.
Seriously Aron, THANK YOU for being one of the few OG TH-cam atheists who stayed true to your principles. So many other atheist TH-camrs were suckered into joining the far-right and now they're siding with the same fascist theocrats they used to criticize.
@@chad3385 armoured skeptic, sargon of ukip and probably many more i never watched. the shift happened around 2015-16, when americans had to decide between a megapastor and someone everyone hated so much, her husband's approval rating went up for cheating on her.
Even though I've supported a full ban on firearms for my entire life, I've found myself warming to the idea of minority-focused gun clubs and mutual defense groups more and more in the past few years...
Aww whybis that so? If you are okay to explain. As I am against that the majority owns firearms as the big majority of robbers oens them too and know how to use them.
@@simonw.1223 The only two reasons I thought of as legitimate for owning a firearm were self defense against a tyrannical government or criminals. The problem with the first reason is that no amount of small arms are going to save you from an Apache. If you're ever in a situation where you would need a firearm to protect yourself from the U.S. government then you're also in a situation where there's no gun in the world big enough to do fuck all to save you. The problems with the second reason is that banning firearms would make it equally difficult for criminals to acquire firearms while also eliminating the added risks of having a firearm in your home. Also, statistically speaking, a firearm in the home is more likely to harm an innocent (either by accident or by being stolen and diverted to the black market for use in a violent crime) than it is to prevent harm being done by a criminal. I did not consider the threat posed by my own damn countrymen to be a legitimate possibility until the past few years. I wanted to give these nationalist/militia/etc. folks the benefit of the doubt at least when it comes to full-blown God damn treason. It's pretty clear at this point that that was a mistake, so I've had to start considering a third possible threat: Open, armed conflict with religious/political civilian militias and hate groups. The government is too corrupt and the fascists too emboldened to assume folks, especially more vulnerable, targeted minorities, will be protected without the means to protect themselves. Hopefully I communicated all that effectively and it all made sense.
@The Cycle You're way more likely to be harmed by a firearm you own than one owned by a criminal, though. And we're *supposed* to have law enforcement to deal with issues like gangs and cartels, but I'd say the solution for that is to get the corruption out of our governments so we can structure our system of law enforcement in a way that protects and defends *us* and not the exclusive interests of capital. I've also never really seen hunting as a legitimate reason to *need* a firearm. I just can't bring myself to view hunting as being on the same level as the ability of our children to go to school every day without having to deal with active shooter drills or, like, actual active shooters. I totally understand how important hunting can be for some folks, but there's not gonna be a perfect solution for this issue and I think it'd be worth the sacrifice. Especially when there are other options like bow hunting. Hell, I wouldn't even really be opposed to folks who are reliant on hunting to be allowed one or two hunting-specific firearms like a shotgun and a semi-automatic rifle or something along those lines. If they're going to be used more like a tool than a weapon then I'd have much less of an issue with it.
😂I still think Aron missed his biggest money grab by not being a far right preacher- so glad Aron is who he is! He is an expert at pointing out the truth and denying what is not evidently true no matter how popular it is
Thank you Aron for being a voice of reason. One of the biggest problems for the last 120 years has been the teaching of religious indoctrination instead of respectable morale values.
Separation of church and state is more critical now than ever before!
Separation of state an personal ideology. The woke are just as bad as religious nuts.
Well… they aren’t separate at all right now…
hoppe the states people can claw ther state back for the fundamentalist nutjobbs.. before it goess to civil war , wich considering how happy the other super powers be to use that to teach it a 'lesson' ...could realy cause global waste of resources that even if some dont care about other people , they sure care about having air to breath and fresh water to drink :/
@@johnboettcher1962 all the more reason the actual americans ''aka those that cares about the secular core of its idea'' needs to claw ther government back while the fundamentalists drooling over its oversized military machine still needs to keep some sort of 'appearance' up... :/ otherwise ther behaviour risks forcing the hand of what was allies and foes alike considering the risks of such reality divorced motivations ...being pared with one of the largest mass destruction stockpiles ontop of most environment destructive industries on the planet :(
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He's been working on this for a long time. Glad to hear he has developed it so well.
Be very careful with purple
Glad to see he has not burned out, that he keeps fighting the good fight. As a fellow Texan, understand the frustration.
@@thelord3561 Obi-Wan Kenboi died for your sins.
@@thelord3561 then why does he fail to actually do that for anyone ever? He even seems to cause undue anxieties in some of his followers because of his threat of hell.
Religious people think separation of church and state only applies to other religions, never theirs.
say that to a satanist...
@@inszel They're not. But nice try though.
But back on topic, we Christians need to keep our religion out of politics.
Otherwise, we are GOING AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
@ D.O.M.
So much like they think of laws.
@@christophercuston fair enough.
Amen!!
As a 64 yr old Englishman, I grew up envious and jealous of the USA, as did pretty much everyone in the UK and Europe. We wanted to be like you, even as our parents resented the spread of US business and culture. America seemed to have so much to offer the world and if it desperately needed to tackle equality and civil rights, at least the process was underway.
Today, the USA is no longer seen as a wonderous place. It is almost universally disliked and feared. Like every nation, it has done great things and made mistakes but the sea change in outside opinion came with Trump and the Christian right movement.
I visit the States a lot and I still love the country and the people but I can tell you my friends that the rest of the world is genuinely frightened of what will happen if the most powerful nation on Earth becomes a theocracy.
Just remember, if that ever happens, we can be saved. Most of the current population doesn't want to live in a theocracy, but we may need some help fighting the religious wrong if they ever take over our country. Please invade if that happens.
@@david2869 Lol. I'm not sure we still have the capability for that. It didn't work so well last time.
Seriously though. I hope saner minds prevail. I love the US and I would hate to see it destroy itself.
Europe was pretty much disgusted with the US during the Vietnam War also and for good reason. I don't blame people around the world for being concerned about the crazy things happening here but I honestly do not believe we will ever have a theocracy. Evangelicals are a minority here. They sure are causing a lot of trouble but they can't succeed.
@@---Dana---- That's good to know. My concern and that of many people I know, is the increasing union between right wing Christians and the Republicans. Courting them may seem like a vote winner but we should remember that the Nazis didn't seize power in coup, they were elected because enough people thought they had answers and too many thought they couldn't do much harm.
I really do wish you and all citizens of the US well. You have a wonderful country that needs to be cared for.
@@Outspoken.Humanist 28% of voters are Republican and a recent poll said 1/4 of them do not support Trump. The Roe v Wade decision is getting the anti-Republican vote out. 🤞
In the late 1980s - 1990 I began performing ( I was an orchestral musician) at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale. D. James Kennedy always came out after our performances and sold his bullshit to the audience. I don't remember exactly when, but eventually he began promoting the "Reclaiming America For Christ" movement which, I assume, morphed into what is now called "Project Blitz". I quit performing there shortly after, and that was when I became militantly opposed to religion and began sounding the alarm. Everyone thought I was nuts. Well, here we are.
For me as german Project BLITZ is definitely hinting at the Nazi Blitzkrieg strategy, used in invating Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, even Russia.
So it shows their cloceness to Nazi-onalist ideology, their sympathy with totalitarianism - and their affinity to use violence to achieve their goals.
In contrast to the US variant of fascism, I never heard in Germany of the 1930s about a so fervent support by the clergy as the self-proclaimed US clergy practices it.
Sympathizing - yes, because authoritarianism fitts to the rule of the invisible Strict Father in the sky, but such an equalling of the Leader to a divinely sent person up to declaring him the new messiah himself - never heard that.
Note regarding "Blitzkrieg":
In order to achieve these rapid successe in the first few days, the german soldiers were provided with "Pervitin", which was not much different from crystal meth.
That allowed them to march and fight 2,3,4 days in a row, where the other army's soldiers were totally exhausted after a day or so.
So these people identify themselves with meth-heads.
So if you meet some guy speaking positively of Project Blitz, tell them these people admire literally an army of junkies.
Glad to hear it. You were correct.
Thats why they hate intelectuals...We can see and point out to others their idocracy
@@thelord3561 Obi-Wan Kenboi died for your sins.
That scumbag died in 2007. One of Billy Graham’s grandson now runs the buy-bull indoctrination center there. They stiffed three bands I've played with.
As a guitarist, I get MANY offers to play gigs at churches. My answer is always the same, 'I don't appease, nor preform, for terrorists, no matter how much money they offer.'.
What Aron describes here is theocratic fascism.
Otherwise just known as fascism.
The fascisms of the 1940s were not bereft of religious supremacy.
The palingenetic part of palingenetic ultranationalism hinged on a glorious past which was divinely mandated.
@@rainbowkrampus AKA the chose people. (I agree with you)
This fascist movement is using Christianity to say, "We are the chosen ones and others are demons/lost souls."
The sad part is Christianity starts with Jesus Christ, a Jewish man.
Christianity=Jesus, Jesus=Jewish, thus Christianity=Jewish.
But some, and increasingly, Christians hate Jewish people.
"Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise."
~Sam Pascoe
Greece and Italy are in Europe.
This is painfully true.
@@turkoositerapsidi
Keen observation...
@@louseveryann2181 🙂
U.S. Constitution, Article 6, Paragraph 3:
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
It seems that for many conservatives, christian nationalists, MAGA supporter, "deplorables", etc., the entire constitution is only the 2nd amendment.
Exceptio probat regulam.
Sounds like a but to me Ikarus.
I’ve been pointing out Art 6 for years.
One of my “favorite” (sarcastic) examples of homophobia in the religious right is the claim that “homosexuality is a bad lifestyle because it has a high rate of suicide and death!!!!!”
Like… gee, I sure do wonder why that is… such a mystery…
It's always the same, "Look how much better we're doing than the people we're oppressing. That proves we're superior!" I hear this a lot from the likes of Matt Walsh and John Doyle.
Apart from that aspect... Which religion has a lower than 100% death rate? I'm on board with it! 😂
That's like saying "I know this is a deep concept but if you kill someone, then they'll be dead."
But I thought you Anglos call homesexuals "gay" and that means same thing as word "happy". Is I wrong?
@@thelord3561 You are referring to Jesus, so I wonder. Does "fallen short" mean made a mistake, or something like that?
But even so, your username is "The Lord", and you are not God, so I wonder do you consider yourself to be a prophet if you use a name like that?
Aron, I gotta say thank you for helping me put the last nail in my deconversion some three or four years ago. I was never a creationist, but your one and only style helped me out a lot. From you I moved on to Hitchens and between the two of you I feel I’ve grown wiser and a better person. I held some views that baffle me to think back on. You are certainly (un)doing god’s work and I hope you know the positive impact you make.
Your story is close to mine-Aron Ra, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and others really helped me to walk away from 33 years of Christianity. Cheers to you mate-I’m right with you.
@@scottsmith2235 WALSH, the GOP and their WAR on Education;
The very Concept of Education;
Ws epicly covered by ‚Some More News’ recently.
Well done, Aron. I found that speech to be as profound and on point as some of the ones I've heard the late Cristopher Hitchens give. I'm hoping messages like this one help reach a large enough group that we are able to turn the tide against all the evil that's been going on in the government recently. I know there are a few people I plan to share this with. Thank you so much for all the hard work you do.
Well-said, my friend.
Hitchens was spot on with all of that.
@@thelord3561 Obi-Wan Kenboi died for your sins.
@@thelord3561 my heart is pumping blood just fine.
Don't know how he believes the left is about preserving rights. If you look at many left-wing poltical groups/Indvidual's, they support the freedom to end pregnancies and marry who you want but look to control everything else. They want to control whether you put a dangerous chemical(since saying the other word will make you tube censor me) into your body (funny how liberals love protecting big pharma's profit margin in this instance), what weapons you can own to protect yourself (especially when evidence the state is so blatantly unconcerned with our wellbeing), what you can say online or in public, and look to have control over what you can use and buy. So, it's by no stretch to say the left is no more opposed to group think and top-down control than the right wing. I don't see much of a difference between the delusions of socialists and the delusions of religious fanatics.
As a Kansan, our victory against the anti-abortion proposal is one of the few things I'm proud of our state for.
I'm from Indiana, our reich wing legislature just passed an extreme pro-birther law. I wish they would put abortion up from referendum vote
From what I’ve heard it was voted down because they realized that if they take that right away then they would have the opportunity to take more rights away.
Does that sound accurate?
Strictly speaking, the referendum wasn't "to ban abortion", it was "to allow the (right wing) state legislature to decide cases related to abortion". Currently, the right to abortion is guaranteed by the state constitution, full stop. The movement, if it had passed, would've changed that. So, basically, yeah. It would have established a really dangerous precedent.
@@geraldmeehan8942 i believe you can do so by a petition
@@InvaderTak176I think so too just lot of obstacles. Really need one here though!
4:25 as a person that lives in Kansas I think I did my part in helping the banning of abortion fail. All though I did use fallacies to do so but war is war. I got my dad to vote no or at least I think I did by using the argument that abortion is bodily choice and if forced pregnancy can happen whats to stop forced vaccination. Yes I used slippy slop but I felt it was the best way to get a hard conservative anti vaxer to think.
You are appreciated my friend! Keep up the fantastic work .
Good. Fight fire with fire.
I don’t think that’s a slippery slope so much as it’s a version of reductio ad absurdum or getting him to understand the consequences of granting any government that kind of power over people. Either way, good on you!
Yeah if they get their way they will take us back to the Bronze Age and or 17th century Puritan Massachusetts. They pine for the 1950s were the white guy's rule went unchallenged but they would love to also go back to the 1850s for obvious reasons.
Thank you Aron Ra for all that you do. I wish I could get my one Republican friend to break the brain lock but I can't get through. He lives in NY so his capacity for damage is muted but it still weighs heavily on me.
ever consider waving him towards an atheist conservative group?
@@inszel Yea wouldn't work. He's not a zealot Fundamentalist but he was raised Catholic and sticks to that. Thanks for the suggestion though.
@@erikriggiola6780 oh well. I can only suggest to keep being friends with him, using the example of Daryl Davis.
try looking up methods of deprogramming friends/family from a cult. it really does work, especially if they still trust you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprogramming
@@thomasneal9291 i'd be careful using such ideas, as politics is often just opinions. thus treating them like they are brainwashed might just push them further away.
I didn't get a real education because of fundamental religion. I can't ducking stand the thought of someone else going through what I did. They didn't give me the respect of a normal human because I'm a woman either.
🙏🏿 🙏🏿 🙏🏿
I am truly sorry for you 😔❤️
"repeat teen pregnancies" So nothing's changed in 30 years.
I'm born & raised Texan and had my teens in the late 80s. Most of my fellow classmates were pregnant before the age 17. Out of the 12 girls in my homeroom, only 4 of us were not pregnant while in HS. I knew one girl who had her 2nd child when she was 18.
Sex Ed in my school district wasn't sex ed; it taught avoidance. We were shown slides of STDs (was called VD back then), and that was it. They didn't even teach we girls about menustration.
That's why abortion rates in abstinence only districts are the highest. That and no one wants to pay for free access to contraceptives.
And we are a Christian country too, yet we don't have rampant teen pregnancies. Start teaching children to think about something useful than sex, maybe?
@@IkarusKommt Sex is natural, and a natural part of the human experience. Proper fact based sex education is vital, and we should encourage children to learn about it and all areas of biology. America isn't a Christian country. The constitution is a secular document and violates numerous biblical laws.
@@IkarusKommt At a time when sexual urges and social approval are the strongest influencing factors in a human's behavior, you're going to tell them to just not think about it? Are you really that stupid?
@@IkarusKommt 😆😅🤣😅🤣😅WHAT? 😆😅🤣
I was a practicing Christian for 25 years.....my daughter was born with multiple birth defects....I buried myself in the Bible to try and understand why GOD...did this to her......after the most disgusting answers from evangelicals...the only peace I received was knowing that I controlled what happened. Thank you Aron
I was a Christian until I read the bible.
If God were real and we were all fearfully and wonderfully made, then cancer wouldn’t exist. It’s the only category of disease caused by one’s genetic code screwing up.
@@horizonblack -- WE were christians until we read the bibleS. If only more said believers would actually READ the book they claim to be the "Perfect word of god". But they don't. Instead, they go to their place of worship and have the hand-picked parts read TO them.
@@thelord3561 -- Honestly, do yourself a HUGE favor and Read the bibles with an Open Mind and ask all the tough questions and do all the critical thinking while reading it. Just think, IF there were a good loving god, he gave us this Brain for a reason. He would WANT us to use that Open Mind and ask all the tough questions because at the very least, it would weed out all the False gods, right? Only fake gods would NOT want us to gain Knowledge, because then the Con is Exposed.
So remember, the Truth is made stronger by questions; only Lies and Errors are Weakened by them.
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with Sense, Reason, and Intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei
Here's to hoping you and all other believers overcome the FEAR of asking questions that indoctrination/religion instills.
@@thelord3561 Obi-Wan Kenobi died for your sins.
Right on point, Aron, as usual.
Dear Aron,
Thank you for what you do. As a trans person who has followed you since I was in middle school, it is really moving to me to hear even the basic lines of respect and support. Hope you and yours are well, cheers.
@@thelord3561
Jesus isn't real, but if he was, he made me in his image. As a trans man.
cause his mom (Mary) gave birth to her genetic clone (virgin birth) meaning that Jesus had XX chromosomes and probably a vagina.
Jesus was a trans man.
@@thelord3561 Hail Satan to you too, brother 😘
Thank you for you meaningless babble
@@thelord3561 then why did god make hell?
@@thelord3561 Omg stop spamming copypastas
Excellent speach, Aron. I'm about to watch it for the second time
I live in the UK and have watched your videos for years. As much as our politics is broken I watch the politics in America with a mixture of amusement and terror thinking I am so glad we haven't got that bad YET!! Watching this video and hearing you speak recently online there is only TWO things I can say and that is GOOD LUCK and keep fighting the good fight, because if they win, America and the world will pay sooner than later.
Hell yes!
Yep, it's the same blend of fascination & horror watching from Australia. At least we got rid of our dangerous happy clappy Xtian PM at the last election, but we can never relax or our secular ideals will be eroded while we aren't paying attention.
Here in Canada we are starting to see this awful American import seeping it's way into our politics. We have at least three Trump wannabes now...
Fortunately I live in Quebec, now a secular society were we still remember what theocracy was like merely the generation before mine. And we barely got out of twenty years of conservatism disguised as liberalism and separatism, turning us into the poorest province in the country. We seem to be getting out of it for now; but Vigilance is the price of Freedom.
However if the US becomes History's biggest banana republic comes November, no one in the world will be safe.
honestly i can't agree with the people here, as a libertarian the rise of left leaning authoritarians is frightening.
@@inszel Such as whom?
Sir, because of you, I recognize that I am a progressive and also center left. Thank you. Great speech.
The USA was the first ever secular nation. But that's past tense.
To be fair, a lot of the ancient nations could classify as semi-secular.
The USA is quickly turning into a Theocracy, no longer a democracy so......go get 'em Aron.
Keep educating Sir.
You do a grand job!
More like theocratic corporate oligarchy.
When rich Christian evangelical buisnessmen get into politics, things get bad quick.
@@deuslapis5247 Disguised Slavery. Now you have to be:
Male
Rich
Christian
White
I adore this man. I hope that in the near future we have a lot more like him.
I've been watching MythVision, Gnostic Informant and History Valley. 3 young men regularly interviewing scholars and dispelling the myth of religion
@@thelord3561 Jesus and I are homies
@@thelord3561 Jesus wants my heart? Sorry but Quitzalocoatl already owns it.
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge Ooh sounds like the start of a very spicy love triangle
I can agree with him up until he talks about the left being about preserving rights. If you look at many left-wing poltical groups/Indvidual's, they support the freedom to end pregnancies and marry who you want but look to control everything else. They want to control whether you put a dangerous vaccine into your body (funny how liberals love protecting big pharma's profit margin in this instance), what weapons you can own to protect yourself (especially when evidence the state is so blatantly unconcerned with our wellbeing), what you can say online or in public, and look to have control over what you can use and buy. So, it's by no stretch to say the left is no more opposed to group think and top-down control than the right wing. I don't see much of a difference between the delusions of socialists and the delusions of religious fanatics.
Thanks for all you do, Aron! If MTG and Boebert have their way, Christian Nationalism will reign supreme over our democracy, and we can't let that happen!
Ironically, MTG and Boebert ought to be among the first to suffer under extreme Leviticsn law.
@@simongiles9749 I’m sure they will be fitted with a scold’s bridle when it happens.
Thankfully we have a constitution to prevent them from getting their way.
The first amendment’s religious protections swings both ways. Gov’t can’t force religion on us and conversely they can’t forbid us from worshipping or not.
But things like facts don’t matter to them.
Freedom of religion requires freedom from religion. As true now as it has always been.
I’m very happy to see this being done in Kentucky. I lived in Kentucky for a few years and where they might say ‘you need JESUS’, I say ‘they need ARON RA’
by the power of RA 💪
@@c0r3s4v3 by Aron ra~
There's more of us like Aron here than you'd think, we're just drowned out by the whackjobs like the ones who run the stupid ass Ark experience.
Both are good 👍
@@thelord3561 well he is definitely a really cool person...
You are a very stubborn hard working sincere gentleman with a gentlemans temperament.these clowns hate it when people don't loose it when discussing a subject, they want you to rant and scream like they do to hide the fact that they are clueless , you just smash them with logic , facts and good nature . Long may you continue sir .
True,true,true...Aron Ra is a class act.
The religious side is indeed peopled with clowns,scammers and sexual deviants. LONG LIVE ARON 😎😎
Please correct the grammatical errors in your comment.
The funny part is that he's guilty of everything you accuse Republicans of: his delivery is just more smooth.
@@wrathofainz bollocks
@@seriouslyshortofnormal925 The even FUNNIER part is that both sides are guilty of these accusations. But sides deny reality in order to push a certain view people down everyone's throats and shout and scream at the other side with blind rage. Aron is no exception to this. He will deny the BIOLOGICAL FACT that there are ONLY 2 GENDERS in order to placate and fit in with a certain view point the left has been pushing for about a decade now even though HE KNOWS BETTER! The Conservatives do this exact same thing but with religion. You've just been trained to see one side's flaws over the others. When in fact both sides are controlled equally and want the same thing. Power, Control and a Totalitarian System where no one can speak their minds or have opinions. Both sides are guilty. And neither side wants to see you or me speak the truth or be free. The country we once knew is LONG GONE my friend. And you better be prepared for if (More than likely it will be WHEN instead of if now) SHTF!
"I wonder how many republican women took a pregnancy test and found out they're democrats" 🤣 that's gold right there.
because becoming pregnant really makes you want to kill your own child.
I think most have always been closet Dems. The big problem is how are they raising their spawn.
AronRa is supremely based. God damn dude is fighting the good fight. Keep at it man.
I want Christopher Hitchenson back.
@@trimerybroymar5618 you mean Christopher “Hitchens”? Or is there another Christopher with the last name “Hitchenson”
@@vogelvogeltje I attach son to Christopher Hitchens as he was an awesome son of a b****.
@@trimerybroymar5618 😉 suuure
@@trimerybroymar5618 Nah, he was becoming a neocon when he died.
The more I know of Christian pseudo-history and the irrational belief mythology is real, the more disgusted I become in Christian subversion in government, education, healthcare and social structures.
As an Australian, i thank you murica. We see what you are and unanimously said "yeah, fk that" at our last election in may. Right wing politics is all but extinct AUSTRALIA WIDE, in every. Single. State.
History has been made.
Not to mention that there is as much non religious in this country as every sect of Christianity combined. Every 4 years our census results show religion declining by 8-10% and no religion climbing by the same amount. By 2026 the non religious will be the vast majority in this country, and we have you to thank for that.
Everything you do, we do the opposite and as a result we are a true secular nation.
Sounds like "heaven"! 😆
More and more I consider emigrating to Australia or New Zealand. As a Brit, I look at our current government and it makes me want to run away.
Go tell it on the mountain, Brother Aron !
A wonderful and well letter speech as expected from Aron Ra , keep on rolling guy. Only wish we had more like him.
Aron, you're genius at using words! Like a George Carlin style, yet more Tim Minchin poetry. Touches of them, but your own fantastic style! I'm in Kingman, AZ, (yes,lol, I know you know of it), sweating that our votes may get dumped. 👍🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌
3 of my favorite people, Aron, George, and Tim 💜💙💚
Aron, I have had no hesitation in sharing this video with everyone, wherever in the world they are, who cares about peace, reason and progress. All power to your elbows.
(I'm Scottish and describe myself as a democratic socialist).
Freedom!
Some of your finest words.
Together we're Better
"We the People..."
Long live our Republic's 🇮🇪☘️💚☘️🇺🇸
Amazing presentation, as always. You should be sharing a stage with Biden. There are a lot of important issues in this presentation that really need to be addressed in the mainstream, especially the gutting of education in conservative states. Children being robbed of knowledge, facts, scientific curiosity and intellectual honesty is just horrible.
i look forward to the day we have an atheist president. Abraham Lincoln is the closest we've had so far
Thank you so much for this Aron Ra. I always enjoy your lectures, and I learn a lot. I certainly hope Beto wins this November. Texas cannot afford another second of that POS Greg Abbott.
Go Beto 💜
Hey, I'm not late! Love ya Aron and thanks for what you do.
Now we are talking. Aron behind a Lectern. I could watch for hours. Cheers Aron.
Keep up the good fight Aron! I’ll always support you for as long as you keep fighting for our rights.
Aron Ra-great as always. Everyone-please share this video. 📡
"It is not the aim of science to open a door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."
-Bertold Brecht
This is my favorite content of you channel. I hope you do more of this.
It's a chilling, chilling story. In the UK, things aren't *quite* so bad, but, still, when I started teaching (in a catholic school because pupil behaviour is generally better) within the year I was called into the Head Master's office and had to explain what on earth I'd been teaching the kids about Evolution! Then there was the time when we had widespread flooding here (including the site of Glouster Cathedral) and the archbishop of Canterbury no less went on record saying it had happened because of gay marriage! Brainless bastards. Keep fighting the good fight, Aron.
Thanks for what you do, Aron
The Handmaid's Tale may become a reality if America doesn't vote democrat.
No what we need is a strong socialist party like we had before
Reagan took office the dems are weak at best bought by the elite at worst we need a real party of the people and the working class.
Ehh maybe, more likely if no one votes democrat
@The Cycle You could read the book!
@The Cycle Basically: far-right theocracy where you're killed if you're LGBT, killed if you're atheist, and if you're a woman and you can bear children, you will be forcibly impregnated by the higher-ups in the theocracy. Oh, and women as a whole have 0 rights, afaik. I couldn't stand watching more than one episode. It's stressful to think about this country going that way.
You ROCK ARON!!! Keep up the good work!!!
Thank you very much AronRa, you continue to be an American legend & beacon of hope!!
I moved from Oklahoma to Denver Colorado and was shocked when the local news didn't have a segment on church activities like the norm in Oklahoma city. The church owns Oklahoma.
Thanks for coming to the Convention. Your speech was right on the money. And for being political... we have to or there won't be an America left. Thanks again Aron!
Was America built on atheism?
“woke ideology” is really just people who think we should care about other people.
conversely, “anti-woke ideology” is not just people who say “we don’t care about other people”…
it’s people who want to make it illegal for anyone to care about other people
Can you find a single Psycholigist that agrees with you?
@@vladtheemailer3223 why would I care what a Psychologist thinks?
There is a difference between people that care and "woke ideology".
@@vladtheemailer3223 really, want to define it for me then?
oh, also, why are you avoiding answering my first question?
One of the greatest speakers/ minds of our times. Thanx a million!
Terrific talk. Thank you Aron!
Thank you for all the work you are doing Aron
amen, keep preachin the good word brother
Thank you Aaron Ra!!! We need to hear the truth, no matter how frightening it sounds. I would rather hear the ugly truth than pretty sounding lies! Thank you Aron Ra!!!
Even though I'm much further left than you, I'm always glad when you talk about politics. You're the one with the platform to actually move people to the left, not me.
So even if the people whose minds you change only end up as center-leftists, I'll still be happy, because at least they're not authoritarian state-worshippers.
Ditto!
At least it’s a shuffle in the right direction
the left sadly is more focused on the state than the right at the moment. at least in the US. but the two wings can be both authoritarians and libertarians.
@@inszel I haven't seen that, usually the Left wings people I meet swing more libertarian as in demilitarization, and lowered execution rates as well as wanting people to have the right to believe different things, and the right wing people I talk to are more authoritarian as in bigger military and more executions, as well as talking about kicking people's asses if they disagree with something they say
@@inszel are you crazy. Dude republicans done away with roe. for control over women. making rape victims carry to term. incest carry to term. but sure it's the democrats. good whataboutism there. no difference.
Excellent, intelligent, informative talk! 😃
If I started a private school that guaranteed absolutely no religious influence in it's curriculum, guaranteed comprehensive fact based sex education BEFORE the average age of puberty, taught only real science, included required courses on critical thinking at every grade level, and rewarded kids for acts of compassion both on and off campus (REAL rewards, not "attabois" and "attagrrls"), do you think I would have any enrollment?
If so, what do you think parents would be willing to pay?
What if I started the school in Texas? Or Kentucky? Or Mississippi? Florida?
I wouldn't open a school like that in those states 😂
@@_Omega_Weapon Okay. Why not?
@@BigRalphSmith It was a tongue in cheek cheek remark because the states you mentioned are very Christian overall and would not value the things you described for their children's education. Didn't think I'd really have to spell it all out but there ya go.
@@BigRalphSmith Because those states are full of loud, violent Christians that might try to kill you?
@@BigRalphSmith Because of how loose gun restrictions are in Red states, for one.
Aron, it's happening here in the UK too. Thank you for this clarion call!
Thank you, Aron. This needs to be said and you say it well.
Excellent. Great summary. Between now and mid-october just about 6 weeks left, go to your Democratic party headquarters in your county and offer to help. Help in any way you can, we must elect Democrats local, state (state legislatures are immensely important for a billion reasons), and federal. Let's give Biden a bright blue Congress to shore up our democracy. 🌊⚖️🗽 Vote blue for the rule of law, social security, medicare, civil rights, voting rights, and the environment.
No thanks
Democrats are less bad in this way but almost all are either "Christian" or say they are. We need open atheists. But those aren't likely to be good political candidates bc they're not as easily corruptible. Also, don't try to point out Mao's China or Stalin's Russia as examples of atheism, because the state literally was viewed as the deity there.
💓💖💗Your best, if not also most urgent and important, presentation yet, Aron!
There are watchers of yours who don't want you talking about politics? Why not? You're great at it! This is the best description of the Fundamentalist Christian Theocracy threat to the nation I have heard yet!
You, sir, are my hero.
In most cases intelligence is inversely proportional to religiosity.
If religion, was for Smart people. But it's Snot.
Outstanding speech/ presentation.
And I urge all Americans to not only vote in November but organise and mobilise as many friends and family to vote Democrat. The American experiment is hanging by a thread. I urge you my friends. Vote democrat in November.
From a very concerned Britt.
Thank you Aaron.You’re a shining light. Thanks.
No thanks
@@Newmericaindustries at least you’re polite 👍👍
The part about this speech where you talked about Trump trying to be a dictator, reminded me of the time when Trump said of President Xi "He was just appointed lifetime Presidency by the Communist Party, we should try that sometime". That phrase, no matter how "jokingly" Trump said it; should have been a RED FLAG to everyone. A sitting President of the USA should NEVER "joke" about something like that; even if it was "I said that to see how the 'leftist press' would run with it" . For me, the reality check moment on Trump was when he "took a knee" to Fauci , and Birx over the "Cough" that came from China, that he helped to fund by reopening off shore Bio-weapon research. Trump likes to cite the Dems, as being the ones that brought down all the lock downs and a FORCED VAX... We all watched on those press briefings as it all started under HIS WATCH, with him standing next to Fauci and Birx; then pivoting "we had a great economy , but we had to shut it all down". YOU, Mr. Trump, shut it all down, YOU set the precedent for what every Governor, Mayor, and all other levels of Government could do to the people of the USA, on TOP of what former President Bush did in 2001. It is clear that this Nation is in a power struggle between two forms of Absolute Dictatorship, instead of being the Independent, and FREE Nation that it is supposed to be. Whichever one wins this debate....I LOSE, I will be in a Nation that I served for ( US ARMY VET), that will see me as an "Undesirable".
Best wishes from southern Indiana Aron! I hope your time in Louisville was enjoyable. I really enjoy you programs and thank you for the work you do
Great speech . The fate of worlwide wellbeing rides on theocrats not being in positions of power in the west. ...or anywhere else for that matter!
So gald you exist in our times in this world of all! we love you Aron Ra!
This was beautiful.
I am scared for this country, and I know that I'm the type of person the christo-fascists would gladly see dead. At the same time I refuse to live in the Handmaid's Tale universe. Not discounting the possibility I might have to go down literally fighting for my life one day.
Many thanks for this.
We pay the most for health care and have the worst outcomes of all industrialized nations.
This is what it means to be blessed by God?
Apparently.
"And I'm done"
might as well have dropped the mic, damn
The story about his wife charging her electric car is wild. Like I have my own criticisms when it comes to favoring electric cars over say, hybrids or biodiesel cars, but imagine making it about race. Incredible.
I am glad you have stood firm all these years Aron-Ra. Thank you for continuing to dispense truth in spite of what is thrown your way by the zealots
A shocking notion is that many Americans only found out about the Tulsa Massacre from an episode of Watchmen.
❤️❤️❤️ greetings from Sweden!
great talk…important topic
Kitten reporting! A bit lat late, but I'm here :)
Hearing this after having just read in the news how and why Turkey is banning music festivals last minute because of "immorality", remembering an arrest of a singer a couple days ago because religious people were offended by a joke she made about a band member of hers, is quite painful.
It does warm my heart to know people care and in some countries people can still speak out against legislation based on moral views of a supremacist group. And I assume that in Turkey people will speak out as well, despite there no longer being any free press and the police and army slamming down protests, supported by a fascist government that is supported by religious extremists, but I (and probably a lot of other people) feel powerless and all I hear from Turkey is what the press in my own country shows and it's sliding toward a theocratic dictatorship faster than anything I've ever seen. WWII isn't even a hundred years ago. There are still people alive who have been through it. Have we learned nothing? Fascism is never the road to progress but always the road to death.
I wanted to be there so bad but after 3 years covid finally caught me. Great work Aron!
You drop truth with some good jokes.
It is sad to see what America has become and my home country of Greece is not far behind in our backwards thinking.
Bravo.. Excellent presentation. ~3K
Seriously Aron, THANK YOU for being one of the few OG TH-cam atheists who stayed true to your principles.
So many other atheist TH-camrs were suckered into joining the far-right and now they're siding with the same fascist theocrats they used to criticize.
Who?
@@chad3385 yeah i'm not following either, it seemed most of the 'new atheists' went to the left.
Cry more. Atheism Plus/wokeness destroyed atheism.
@@chad3385 armoured skeptic, sargon of ukip and probably many more i never watched.
the shift happened around 2015-16, when americans had to decide between a megapastor and someone everyone hated so much, her husband's approval rating went up for cheating on her.
@@chezeus1672 damn. I guess I only watch the big 5-10 on TH-cam. I'll be sure to stray from those others.
America going back to the dark ages...heck, America is back in the dark ages.
vanilla isis with the unassassably bloated military industrial complex of the united fascist theocratic states of 'murica is some scarry shit
Even though I've supported a full ban on firearms for my entire life, I've found myself warming to the idea of minority-focused gun clubs and mutual defense groups more and more in the past few years...
Aww whybis that so? If you are okay to explain. As I am against that the majority owns firearms as the big majority of robbers oens them too and know how to use them.
Good because firearm banning stupid you don't disarm the working class.
@@WokeandProud I think the gin policy should get the person owning a gun get some check ups
@@simonw.1223 The only two reasons I thought of as legitimate for owning a firearm were self defense against a tyrannical government or criminals.
The problem with the first reason is that no amount of small arms are going to save you from an Apache. If you're ever in a situation where you would need a firearm to protect yourself from the U.S. government then you're also in a situation where there's no gun in the world big enough to do fuck all to save you.
The problems with the second reason is that banning firearms would make it equally difficult for criminals to acquire firearms while also eliminating the added risks of having a firearm in your home. Also, statistically speaking, a firearm in the home is more likely to harm an innocent (either by accident or by being stolen and diverted to the black market for use in a violent crime) than it is to prevent harm being done by a criminal.
I did not consider the threat posed by my own damn countrymen to be a legitimate possibility until the past few years. I wanted to give these nationalist/militia/etc. folks the benefit of the doubt at least when it comes to full-blown God damn treason. It's pretty clear at this point that that was a mistake, so I've had to start considering a third possible threat: Open, armed conflict with religious/political civilian militias and hate groups.
The government is too corrupt and the fascists too emboldened to assume folks, especially more vulnerable, targeted minorities, will be protected without the means to protect themselves.
Hopefully I communicated all that effectively and it all made sense.
@The Cycle You're way more likely to be harmed by a firearm you own than one owned by a criminal, though. And we're *supposed* to have law enforcement to deal with issues like gangs and cartels, but I'd say the solution for that is to get the corruption out of our governments so we can structure our system of law enforcement in a way that protects and defends *us* and not the exclusive interests of capital.
I've also never really seen hunting as a legitimate reason to *need* a firearm. I just can't bring myself to view hunting as being on the same level as the ability of our children to go to school every day without having to deal with active shooter drills or, like, actual active shooters. I totally understand how important hunting can be for some folks, but there's not gonna be a perfect solution for this issue and I think it'd be worth the sacrifice. Especially when there are other options like bow hunting. Hell, I wouldn't even really be opposed to folks who are reliant on hunting to be allowed one or two hunting-specific firearms like a shotgun and a semi-automatic rifle or something along those lines. If they're going to be used more like a tool than a weapon then I'd have much less of an issue with it.
As always: Right on the money!!! Right in the freaking kisser! Thanks for another excellent speech Aron!
Highest rate of repeat teen pregnancy and abortion bans are not a good combination
Ya that's what happens when the right is even slightly in control.
If their white and Mostly White...
😂I still think Aron missed his biggest money grab by not being a far right preacher- so glad Aron is who he is! He is an expert at pointing out the truth and denying what is not evidently true no matter how popular it is
"I still think Aron missed his biggest money grab by not being a far right preacher"
Oh fuck yeah! He could have made a fortune and had his own plane.
@@SamIAm-kz4hg Weaseled out of taxes and had 4 "marriages"!
A masterpiece ✨ 👏 🙌
There is a film about how and when the parties began switching. Pretty interesting, informative.
Thank you Aron for being a voice of reason. One of the biggest problems for the last 120 years has been the teaching of religious indoctrination instead of respectable morale values.
Glad you're teaching.
Whoa; new content from Aron ra; 🤗 now I have something to sleep by in peace.