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Please ignore this completely if you don't think politics belongs on a secular forum, but to my mind, secular humanism absolutely relates to questions of dissemination of factual knowledge, methods for determining fact from propaganda, from fantasy, from paranoid delusion; and news reporters, anchors and pundits bear a key responsibility for the spread of current events information.
Rachel Maddow, leftist liberal Commie-pinko degenerate family-hating Jezebel that she is to her Fox-News-loving detractors, represents a powerful counterweight to the propaganda(not news) of Fox, which from the very start has been a social agenda campaign machine masquerading as a news organization. If you believe religious faith-fueled ignorance is dangerous to lovers of reality, you should consider similarly the destructive role played by Fox News toward public understanding of factual reality. Is Maddow partisan? Yeah, I think so, but she deals in fact, whereas her Fox colleagues....eh, not so much.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Seems easier to comment on this by pasting the tail end of my bio. It fits so well.
What's called politics differs little from religion. One is dominated by this world focused, faith-based organizations and ‘parties’ masquerading as secular. Theology promises 'pie in the sky'. Political fanaticism promises 'pie on earth'. One worships invisible gods aloft and the other, tin god personalities below. One offers denominational group identities; the other ideological. Price of membership is identical for both.
Abdicate independent reasoning in exchange for packaged opinions (read faith) as 'your own'. Luxuriating in ideological mass ignorance reveals small progress in rejection of theology if we cling to its social artifacts or alternative faith systems. Neither counterfeit 'faith' ever actually delivers the pie...
Blind political followers are like Alice in Wonderland:
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”
“It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know”
― Lewis Carroll
Atheists still clinging to many social mores established by theology or partisan doctrines of the Left or Right are high comedy; especially when ridiculing the botched ‘faithful’ and calling it independent thinking.
Silver1wun
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Apr 7, 2018
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Interesting. There is another similarity important to be aware of. Both religion and politics, idealist and misleading though they be, potentially grasp actual reigns of societal power. Religion does it by shaping social mores and social pressure to conform. Politics does it by placing in power people who will make and enforce the legal rules we are governed by, like it or not.
In the case of politics, let's not confuse blind faith with understanding that the sales job that is politics actually determines who gains governmental power. To think one is above politics is to stick one's head in the sand and turn over power to those who remain willing to play the game. Similarly, to ignore religion entirely is to falsely assume religious zealots can't hurt us. We must stay engaged on both fronts to some extent if we don't want to simply let others make the rules that end up controlling important parts of our lives.
I didn't know that she was a lesbian. I've seen some clips of her. I'd probably watch her more if I had cable.
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Apr 6, 2018
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Oh yeah, has talked about it a number of times. Has a longtime partner.
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