Tony Morrison’s first three of ten steps to fascism
1.Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.
2.Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.
3.Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works.
“Brainwashing is brainwashing” according to a Catholic school board member. As in those schools whose entire purpose is to indoctrinate children into the Catholic faith from a young age.
I don’t think she was blaming her choice on the holy spirit (whatever the hell that is), she was just saying it approved her choices and thus she did nothing wrong.
There’s no point in arguing with these people. Faith and superstition is much more flexible than logic. They will always believe they’re right. The absolute best we can hope for is empty lip service that does a passable job of imitating rationality.
I always love how Christians regularly freak out about the idea that “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” is canonically the only unforgivable thing they can do, but then rationalize it as some amorphous thing that’s just not believing enough such that they go on to claim the Holy Spirit does all sorts of shit.
“The Holy Spirit supervised the creation of the Bible so it’s inerrant (even though the majority of scholars think things like 1 Timothy are unquestionably forgeries).”
“The Holy Spirit moved me to post Nazi memes - I was an unwilling vessel.”
If that shit really is unforgivable I’d imagine the vast majority of Christians are in for a surprise down the road…
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