Thread by @Lagiacrus_SSB, I had made a thread on this earlier, but it got borked [...]

I had made a thread on this earlier, but it got borked so I'll try again.

Rant incoming https://twitter.com/NBC12/status/1327834210036559875

https://twitter.com/NBC12/status/1327834210036559875

I'm going to just cast aside the 'ignorant' comment, because coming from -that- side, it means nothing.

So when it comes to the other two, "anti-American and anti-Christian", I wish that in the current time, more people were those things. I'll go into it as to why I think that.

Anti-American.

Blind patriotism and loyalty to a country is never a good thing to begin with. When you sprinkle on the horrid history and even horrid current-times of this country, the pride and loyalty become even more confusing.

More people need to be anti-American right now.

I'm not saying that to be edgy, either. The current state of affairs with the USA is not desirable at all. It's only desirable to the ones in charge and their cult, who want nothing more than "the good ol' days" which is merely charade for white supremacy and lack of decency.

So yes, we need an anti-American feeling right now, so that we can finally start to get on a path to betterment. Current-America (and its history of how it treats people and whatnot) does not deserve patriotism and pride.

Now, onto the second one.

Anti-Christian.

I feel very strongly on this subject, and I'll be mindful to clarify that it's -not all Christians-.

I know some actual genuinely good-at-heart and good-intentioned religious folks, and this thought-dump doesn't apply to them.

And with that out of the way, we definitely need to be anti-Christian, but mainly for government, which is the topic at hand.

Religion has no place in government, and I'm so sick of Christians in power forcing their beliefs and will onto everyone else.

For a bit of backstory, I was born and raised in the Bible Belt of southern USA. I was surrounded by deeply religious folks, and I'm just glad I never joined their ranks, and that I broke away from that.

It seemed like a good thing when I was a child, but not as I grew older.

"These religious people trying to help others and do glory for God" sounded like a wonderful thing when I was a naive little boy. I even did start going to church and almost did become brainwashed/indoctrinated.

But when was in late high school, I finally started to wake up.

While most Christians do profess this vision of goodness and purity and all the other sickly-sweet things they love to spew, it's completely overridden by how they -actually- are. Immense hypocrites, hearts full of hate, and a feeling of superiority/supremacy.

It's honestly such a shame that it's like this. I started questioning why the heck there was so much shaming and so much intolerance from most religious folks down there when I was still part of the church, and I finally had enough and broke away.

Back to the topic of government, we absolutely must be anti-Christian strictly when it comes to governance. It's really not good that it's somehow a norm and an "expected" thing to be Christian and use those Christian values in your law-making/decisions as a representative.

And it's especially gross to me that as you see there, being against that gets you shamed by that side, as if they are like, the superior intellect and have the absolute necessity to shove their religion into laws and things.

Maybe if Christians in power didn't do everything they could to make life miserable for anyone who wasn't straight and white, then MAYBE I'd have a bit more tolerance for it. But for all the LGBTQIA+ folk, all the POC, minorities, women, conservative Christians are the enemy.

And that's not even going into how horribly hypocritical these people are when it comes to -other- religions in government.

Any other religions that try to make their way into government, are labeled as "trying to indoctrinate our kids" "trying to take away Christianity" "A threat to our beloved country", the list goes on and on.

And after all this thought-dump on Christianity, I just want to stress once more that I'm only airing out my deep grievances with the hypocritical and bad-intent Christians. It's not my place to say no one should be Christian, nor will I judge. I only will if you're THAT kind.

Like, good lord, it's 2020 and we still have people in power trying to make abortions illegal, and trying to roll back LGBTQIA+ protections and gay marriage. It's despicable.

Going back to anti-American, it deeply disturbs me that US History that was taught in schools when I was growing up and learning about it, was egregiously whitewashed and did everything it could to change what happened to make the white folk and colonizers seem like heroes.

We have to teach history as it happened factually, and we have to stop this abhorrent push to blind patriotism and loyalty. We have to lay bare the awful things the colonizers did, and the horrible things that white folk did to POC, without watering it down.

But all in all, I can't help but get a sad, resigned amusement at folks like this who I linked, who accuse us of being things that we -should- be, or that are actually good/needed.

Get rid of blind patriotism, get religion out of government.

This is a lot all at once, and not any sort of peaches-and-daisies tone.

I'm just so sick of it.

And seeing our current President retweeting nonsense like that just got me all sorts of booty-bothered.

This country is not the greatest country on the planet. Far from it.

It's a country built on lies and slaughter and horrible things.

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