My take is that Satanism is not a genuine religion. The Satanists are using mockery of religion to support an essentially political agenda. Mockery can be very effective but can be polarizing. I imagine that truly religious people would be offended that their sincerely held beliefs are being likened to devil worship, even if they too support the separation of Church and State.
So basically to they use the name Satan to mess with people and get attention. It can be clever and amusing to “trigger the Rethugs” in this way but in my view it is counterproductive. We’re better than that.
Now if we can just get a Democratic President elected who has the guts to not say “And God Bless the United States of America” at the end of every major speech.
Trump has avoided it now and then, but that’s only because he takes personal credit for everything, and doesn’t like sharing the spotlight.
Remind the GOP complainers that “so help me God” hasn’t stopped a single Ayn Rand atheist from taking the oath - and not a single one has burst into flames for lying that they will put the needs of our nation before the interests of their party or themselves.
I’d beseech a superior being for a favor, but I demur on the .0000001% chance it would work. For all his faults Adam Sandler doesn’t really deserve to be cut down in the prime of life.
Oh bless their venal little hearts. Every SINGLE time they don’t want to be shown up as the grifting aholes they actually are, they play the ‘Jesus’ card…‘I’m a victim because of my FAITH!’ while standing next to Falwell or some other weasel that lies.
It’s actually quite telling that the GOP thinks that it requires divine intervention to keep one’s commitment to the Constitution and to one’s constituency.
If there is a God in the heavens, I cannot believe that they would welcome into paradise people who are so morally lacking that they need a celestial crutch to do right by people.
In fact, you don’t even have to swear to tell the truth. If you’re a member of the Circle of Friends (‘Quakers’), then you take offense to the fact that someone might think you could ever tell a lie. In their case, they merely have to make a ‘solemn affirmation’ that they don’t lie anyway.
I’ve seen the flag displayed in all sorts of demeaning ways
On ball caps
Shirts
Pants
Underwear
Toilet lids as decoration around a picture of Nixon
License plates
Et cetera ad nauseam
I may be a reasonably liberal and forgiving person but disrespecting the flag is something I would not do.
I encounter this opinion that there isn’t enough prayer in America,
but I say there’s way too damned much.
The prayer problem is people pontificating to puff up pious public personas.
Or maybe they just like hearing themselves talk.
In extreme cases, their “prayers” sound a lot more like explaining their will to God,
than the other way around.
None of it is heard by the Father!
We’re rapidly becoming a nation of already having our reward in full.
And lie less often. And call out every single lie by every single Republican in Congress, in a Cabinet Position, in the White House. Jesus would not approve aiding and abetting by silence.
“I think God belongs in religious institutions: in temple, in church, in cathedral, in mosque — but not in Congress,” said Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. What Republicans are doing, he continued, “is using God.”*
“And God doesn’t want to be used,” he said, by the talibangelicals
If there is a god I am quite sure that entity would have far more important things to be involved in than worrying about a political oath on essentially an unknown dust mote in a disused corner of a throw away galaxy in the Grand Scheme of Things.
