"Lack of belief in God is still too often taken to mean the absence of any other meaningful moral beliefs, and that has made atheists an easy minority to revile. This is especially true in America, where an insistence on the idea that we are a Christian nation has tied patriotism to religiosity, leading to such strange paroxysms as the one produced by President Trump at last year’s Values Voter Summit: “In America, we don’t worship government—we worship God.”"
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Such is the very eloquent apologetic for prejudice and bigotry, evil with a small e, sadism with a beaming smile, cruelty with a sympathetic shrug, the Christian patriot so enjoys.
The same sort of power hungry relishing nastiness of times past when school teachers would sneer "Believe me this is going to hurt me much more than it does you."
Knowing it to be untrue but secure in their place and position of power that it matters not at all, except when it comes to the matter of pleasure derived from the infliction of pain.
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