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January 28, 2017
by David Smalley
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As an atheist, I fight against religious corruption every day, but Im supposed to accept Pastor Hillary and her Church of the DNC without question?
I dont stand with Her, and Bernie was wrong for endorsing Her. I was wrong for voting for Her. He should have stood his ground, called out the corruption, and refused to take part in the nonsense. As should I. Donald Trump was right about this.
The crazy thing about me is, Im actually willing to change my mind on an issue and be realistic about the outcome. Im also willing to tell you about it, even knowing the kind of hyperbolic backlash Ill receive from name-calling liberal extremists.
So be it. May the Facebook gods bless you with 20 likes this time. Thats the real goal, right?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dogmadebate/2017/01/conservative-atheist/
I hope Smalley does not live in Michigan, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)struggle4progress
(118,289 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Confirmation, if it was needed, at this somewhat confused and overstated post.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)namely the crew over at Cognitive Dissonance, Serious Inquiries Only and The Scathing Atheist over social justice issues. In fact, I would hesitate to call Smalley a liberal at all, at best he's a moderate-rightist who is kinda OK with gay people, but only kinda OK with them. His empathy comes up short, to put it frankly.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,320 posts)about "Hillary's corruption", then I wouldn't characterise him so much as a "conservative", more an "idiot arsehole". Especially if he's saying that after what we've seen Trump do in the past week. And I suspect he's been like that a long time, and can't blame people on the left for it.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)I've listened to his podcasts about BLM and other protests and he seems to be either unable or unwilling to look at those who have different experiences as having equal weight to his own.