« Reply #7 on: Fri, 11 November 2022, 11:02:20 »
THERE VERY LIKELY IS A GOD, but certainly not one Humans often worship.
I agree with this, and feel that Western Religion has generally run its course and passed its "Best by" date, but the residual underlying social morality that Jesus taught is still as valid as it ever was.
Unfortunately, the universal core value of human brotherhood has become eclipsed by the lust for power. Salman Rushdie said it very well with "Fundamentalist religion has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with political power."

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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30