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Well, God dammit, how about we start paying attention to how much suffering these beliefs are causing? Millennials are paying attention, and that\u2019s why they are exiting churches stage left and right. If Evangelicals have their way, abortions will, once again, be performed in back rooms and alleys. If Evangelicals have their way, LGBTQ people will be driven to the utter darkness of the closets from whence they came. If Evangelicals have their way, atheists will be silenced and God returned to his \u201crightful\u201d place in public school classrooms. Yes to school prayer! Yes to Bible reading is the classroom! Yes to creationism being taught in science classes! Yes to churches, pastors, and parachurch groups having ready access to public school students! What Evangelicals want is a return to the glory days of the post-World War II 1950s. No matter how much suffering such a move causes, all that matters is that Evangelicals (and ostensibly, their God) get their way. Unwilling to pray and wait on God, Evangelicals have turned to politics to gain their desired objective. In doing so, they have forsaken whatever moral ground they once held. The moment Evangelicals voted President Pussy-Grabber into office, their moral authority was gone<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Bruce Gerencser<\/a><\/p>\n

Third, 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump, and that will eventually sink into public consciousness, as in, Wait a minute! What are you saying? The church people gave us that piece of sh*t p***y-grabber?!<\/i> Yep, they did \u2014 and that will be the tale of how the Evangelical Right and \u2018movement so-called conservatism\u2019 committed political suicide. They might make some noise, occasionally score a small victory \u2026 but they are done. The Trump administration, with its inevitable serial indecencies and corruptions, is their achievement, and they will never live it down.<\/p>\n

Me, November 24, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam \u2014 good people, yes, but any religion based on a single\u2026 well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system that has worked pretty well for twenty-five hundred years. So you see I am ecumenical in my dislike for the Book.<\/p>\n

Gore Vidal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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