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Tweedy

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15. I don't think many of Mr. Trump's "pastors" believe in anything

Reply to The Great Open Dance (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 26, 2024, 07:14 PM

Oct 26

Remember when the right claimed “relativity” would lead to a nihilism where no-one behaved decently because the fear of God would be gone?

I certainly do. It used to give me the serious creeps to hear, but not for the reasons the moralizers were trying to evoke. It made me wonder what horrible things they wished to do that didn’t happen because they feared God.

Most of us don’t hurt each other because we really dislike pain, enduring it, inflicting it, even watching it. Neither God, nor the fear of him have much to do with this deep apathy to pain most of us have.

It feels like the nihilists won on the right side of America’s political aisle. In the meantime the rest of us, who do not wish to hurt random strangers much less our loved ones, did not even notice the fight the right wing decent types were losing.

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