06-16-2021, 01:52 PM
(06-16-2021, 12:56 PM)Captain Genet Wrote:(06-16-2021, 12:09 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The problem seems to be that large parts of rural red America seem to prefer racism to democracy. Before the George Floyd killings, they had a decisive enough advantage to hold the country. It was racist organizations that put a violent edge to the January 6 insurrection. It was people fed up with racist organized murder that gave Biden the decisive edge to win the 2020 election. I do not see the rural racist folk getting hold of the elections again. They are making a game of it still, but the court cases are in limbo. I don't see the Big Lie holding us in limbo indefinitely.
Racist views should be deplatformed the same way fascism was deplatformed in Europe after 1945. For example Evangelical leaders should make it clear that anyone who hates Blacks, or thinks Blacks are not capable of being as culturally sophisticated as Whites, violates the Biblical teaching according to which all humans are descended from Adam and Eve. Racists would have the choice to either abandon their views, or convert to Satanism, Odinism or Russian Orthodoxy. The latter choice would make them distinctly un-American.
I don't know what Odinism is. Is that another of some kind of cyber cult for millennials and Gen Zers?
If you mean Norse paganism, I suppose that could be some alternative for people whom the Evangelicals expel from their religion, but I don't see any inherent racism in most forms of paganism or neo-paganism. It tends otherwise. As for Russian Orthodoxy, isn't that just the more original form of the Christian Church, and therefore quite as Biblical as Evangelicals?