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When did hate become a religious freedom? (Original Post)
DainBramaged
Feb 2014
OP
Religion is more and more a shield used by bigots to defend their bigotry (nt)
JJChambers
Feb 2014
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elleng
(131,018 posts)1. Good question.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)2. When did they write the Bible? The Torah? The Noble Qur'an?
daleo
(21,317 posts)3. The same time religion became a hate freedom
When it was first dreamed up.
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)7. And now they claim they are the ones being persecuted
Vaporware, they have nothing to offer the American people except fear and hatred, restricting the right to vote, and getting the people who need help the most to vote against their own best interests.
The GOP should be know as a terrorist organization.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. The First Commandment is at odds with the First Amendment
If I recall correctly, that there Jehovah feller wasn't watcha call a big supporter of religious tolerance, if you know what I mean.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)5. After the fall of the Soviet Union
The Republicans no longer had an external enemy to channel it's hate and paranoia at. At the point they started attacking their fellow citizens. We became their enemy. We being liberals, gays and lesbians, Muslims, racial minorities, etc.
They call it, 'religious freedom', because they have themselves convinced that right wing talking points come from scripture.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)6. When the bill of rights was ratified, at the latest.
Nowhere in the first amendment does it say "provided it's only used for ethical purposes".
JJChambers
(1,115 posts)8. Religion is more and more a shield used by bigots to defend their bigotry (nt)