Nahweh

@nahweh.bsky.social

Is this the American Exceptionalism I’ve heard so much about? If you only knew how many posts I’ve aborted.

As a non-believer, my own religious liberty means not being coerced into following dictates of other people's beliefs This is the EXACT argument American Christians make when they scream, "NO SHARIA LAW!" They don't want someone else's religious teaching enshrined in American law Equal protection!

The new Axis of Evil is three authoritarians waging hot war to gain personal power and expand cultural hegemony, leveraging religious bigotry and out group hatred

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I’m glad you found a religion that gives you joy, peace, and purpose. I get that from Earth, Wind, and Fire. I raised my children to love, honor, and cherish their music. But I don’t go door to door preaching that if you don’t love them you’re squandering a heavenly gift. Even though that’s true.

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

Everything is remix. Christianity is a remix of: - Hebrew monotheism - Jewish apocalypticism - Prophetic ethics - Wisdom traditions - Hellenistic philosophical concepts - Roman imperial realities Islam is a remix of: - Arabian religious traditions - Judaism - Christianity - Late antique monotheism

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Forget SpaceX. Elon Musk will always be the guy who turned Twitter into a hateful cesspool of right-wing extremist propanda, assisted Trump's win, gave a Nazi salute behind a presidential podium & launched the deadly lie of DOGE that dismantled programs that saved millions of lives around the world.

"If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake... I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone." — Marcus Aurelius

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I wondered, “How could pointing out people’s dumb fictions be more annoying than the dumb fictions?” I realized that people FUCKING LOVE their fictions. No really, they LOVE their imagined stories about knights and damsels, gods and monsters, and magical powers. People are just nuts, that’s all.

MAGA is the Klan Look beneath the brand, look at their platforms, their ideologies: Neo-Confederate Neo-fascist Neo-Nazi Nordicist White supremacist White nationalist Nativist Anti-feminist Anti-LGBT Anti-abortion Anti-immigrant Anti-atheist Anti-Islam Anti-Communist

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Hey listen: everybody knows you’re a Republican. You’ve made that much clear. But are you a sexist and a racist too? Because if you don’t make that clear, you’re going to get tainted by the sexist and racist Republicans running the party. But you do you. Maybe that’s your bag after all.

There’s a new inspiring religious meme I’m seeing on Tshirts and stickers: “Faith over Fear” The same people selling you FAITH are the ones who got you addicted to FEAR—with their tall tales of gods and monsters, angels and devils, heaven and hell, original sin and saving grace. Fuck all that!

Bluesky thinks it wants to attract thinky people, but doesn’t give them a damn edit button. Don’t set the bar at perfect—else appear illiterate. Super dumb move. Obstinately dumb.

For millennia, natural human imagination, ingenuity, and competitiveness was dedicated more to supernatural notions like gods and monsters than to natural pursuits. Once we developed methods for apprehending and recording verifiable details of nature and began to understand them, we began to evolve.