Why Does Democracy Need to be Defended?

[Eric the Green]

(09-28-2021, 09:45 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:

(09-28-2021, 09:22 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-28-2021, 03:42 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:

(09-28-2021, 05:38 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(09-26-2021, 06:35 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Here is a question of mine. Most of my generation disagrees with the way I view things and my personal beliefs and religiosity. If so, why should I support defending Democracy knowing I will just lose? Can anyone give me a rationale to do so?

If you support imposing your religion on the rest of us, and that's all you care about, then I suppose not. 

But then, why speak of a rationale, since your views are so irrational?

They impose their SJW values on me so I think fair is fair.

Jesus was a Social Justice Warrior. He opposed the corruption. hypocrisy, and inequity of His time. I could imagine Him coming back to see what people have done with His Ministry, and much of it isn't good.If you claim to be a Christian and still support Donald Trump, then you support someone that I best describe as someone of a wide variety of deep sins. You probably just saw how I saw a large number of televangelists. The Prosperity Gospel is a hideous fraud utterly inconsistent with Jesus' Teaching; I look at the Sermon on the Mount (which is the essence of Christianity, and you can throw out practically the rest of the New Testament as fluff) and see a message that the purpose of a Christian is to bring dignity to those in hardship.

Knocking down the tables of the money-changers and driving the cattle out of the Temple are clearly deeds of a Social Justice Warrior.

I'm not for prosperity gospel.  My focus is more on social conservatism, not fiscal. SJWS focus on things like having pride parades on Blues Clues, wanting to ban religion, saying guns are bad, shouting at people for "cultural appropriation" or celebrating porn or abortions. They don't care about the working class either unless you mean poor barista with a prestigious degree and shares the same views as them.

I don't fit your definition of SJWs. Some of them may do some of those things though. Myself, I don't want to ban religion, although I don't want exclusivist religions to dominate our society and politics. I do say "guns are bad," although they may be necessary for an army, unfortunately, and unfortunately now, tyrants have all the guns in many societies today, and I would be for reversing that. Some SJWs are against "cultural appropriation;" I dissent from that; I say we live in a global society now and we need to learn from and adopt aspects of other cultures if they inspire us. I don't celebrate porn or abortions. But I tend to favor freedom for the former and only fair restrictions for the latter. The Texas and Mississippi laws are unfair. I care about the working class. Are some SJWs more like me?

I'm in agreement with pbrower's comments above.