Bubblegum Crucifix Award #2

For the tackiest thing said or done in the name of religion during the past week

There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that — J.D. Vance

Aside from the fact that he is directly contradicting the words of Jesus himself (who among other things urged people to love even their enemies) the good Veep is framing a very grim us-and-them mindset and presenting it as a noble ideal.

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  1. Vance is probably playing to the meme that Democrats are denying the first Amendment rights of people who disagree with them, even though the Constitution guarantees us all full First Amendment rights (including the right to disagree with anyone). So, by claiming we attack them by being, “overly critical about the comments of conservatives,” they play the (poor picked on me card), that is so often used by Trumpers. They seem to think that disagreeing with them amounts to a blatant violation of their rights. But in America The Constitution guarantees that we all have the right to criticize anyone. In fact, we are not even required to agree with anyone, or even to like each other. The fact is that all of us have the right to angrily criticize anyone we choose–we just have to refrain from violence or persistent verbal abuse when we criticize them!

    Regardless Trumpers have consistently been misinterpreting our first amendment rights, and when we point out logical flaws in their thinking, that often arouses their anger. We all tend to defend our own ideas until they are proven to be false. But that does not appeal to Trumpers one bit because Trump has become their supposed legitimate authority on all matters great and small–so they refuse to employ reason and critical thinking that might make them doubt him. They also use the (go to defense), that Trump was sent by God, and therefore is incapable making wrong decisions. That includes rationalizing that some of their leaders express opinions that are not logically supportable, because they have been forced to fear the attacks made by “the Deep State.”–an entity we have been told exists ever since Trump won his first election. And thus, even though Trump and his followers have been blaming their failures on this “Deep State” for years, Trump has told us next to nothing about how it operate, how its financed, or how it even succeeds in intimidating Federal Judges? So, if any Republican is challenged about their supposed legitimate facts, they only respond by claiming that the deep State is responsible? How convenient!

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