We note today two important anniversaries in our public life: The Loving<\/i> decision, and the appalling massacre at the Pulse<\/i> nightclub in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n
Loving<\/i> struck-down laws forbidding interracial marriage, and laid the foundation of 2015’s Obergefell<\/i> decision which made same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States.<\/p>\n
The Pulse<\/i> nightclub massacre was the gratuitous slaughter of 49-patrons at a gay nightclub.<\/p>\n “Christianity is a revolt of all creatures that creep on the ground against everything that is lofty: the gospel of the \u201clowly\u201d lowers …”<\/b><\/p>\n Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n Do you see a pattern here? You should. The great victories for civil liberties, the overdue realizations of America’s promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, overturned<\/i> laws grounded in the religions of the Bronze Age. And the most grievous offenses against<\/i> civil liberties arose from the religions of the Bronze Age.<\/p>\n I am saying exactly what I seem to be saying: The Abrahamic faiths are not merely untrue, but contrary to American ideals and a bottomless well of misery. It is time to be done with them, time to stop granting undeserved deference to Holy Men, time to leave behind their inexhaustible malice for the … other<\/i>, time to openly and frankly refuse to be guided by decadent ideals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We note today two important anniversaries in our public life: The Loving decision, and the appalling massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Loving struck-down laws forbidding interracial marriage, and laid the foundation of 2015’s Obergefell decision which made … Continue reading
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