theocracy

In his newsletter today, Robert P. Jones provides an eye-popping rundown of the race to theocracy that we're seeing now with the Republican party — if our eyes are open.

As he notes, on February 16, the Alabama supreme theocrats delivered their IVF ruling. He notes that chief justice Parker cited the King James bible, bible commentaries, and theologians as he stated that Alabamians live by a "theologically based" understanding of this issue.

#Republicans #theocracy
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/ivf-cpac-and-maga-christian-nationalism

Via David Cay Johnston

#Trump & Co. intend to force a #theocracy despite our Constitution expressly forbidding any establishment of religion.

Jews, Muslims, agnostics, atheists, and actual Christians should be horrified by words below from a retired general who has shown his disloyalty to America..👇🏼

Trump’s former (& future?) nat sec adviser Mike Flynn: “If we are going to have one nation under God which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God and one religion under God”

"The Christian Nationalists’ God is petty, insecure, cruel, authoritarian. Their God, like their favored presidential candidate, demands above all else obedience and loyalty. Their God sees only a few as 'elect': Mike Johnson and his ilk, straight men, blastocysts and frozen embryos. All the others He casts out. Their God is not inclusive; their Paradise, a fascist state."

~ Greg Olear

#WhiteChristianNationalism #autocracy #theocracy #cruelty
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-paradise-lost-d85

A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.

#libraries #education #books #librarians #theocracy

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