I know that you Substack readers are for the most part members of our society that know something is up. And you know that the ski has been falling for quite some time. Understanding that the ski is falling is only the first step. We can’t wait 30 years like we have with Global Warming to start doing something about it. As Robert J. Rei says in this post, believers have been working tirelessly to bring about their utopia by subjugating all of humanity that does not believe as they do. Why don’t we hear about this in the media as the biggest story of our time? Because it is another inconvenient truth that no one wants to hear.
Go to your neighbors and friends and bring up the ugly subject of politics. Ask if they watch Fox News. If they do, drop the subject. If they don’t, ask them if they know of Project 2025 and the Supreme Court rulings solidifying religious immunity and the transfer of education from tax paid public to tax paid religious schools. Then just reassure them that they really need to vote this November because their freedom if not their lives depend upon it.
Mr Robert J. Rei makes it quite clear. His research and facts are accurate and comprehensive. What America’s founders feared the most is beliefs overcoming critical thinking. That is why they insisted upon the separation of church and state and an electoral college, a body of critical thinkers who would have the ability to overcome the efforts of the ignorant and inexperienced voters to move the government into authoritarian rule. And they knew that even that attempt to check and balance was flawed. Remember please that the founders of the Constitution were for the largest part wealthy colonists and most lost everything they owned, were killed, and saw their families torn apart just to make a stab at creating a country that would allow religious freedom for all. How avant-garde was their thinking? In comparison, Communism has no tolerance for any religion whatsoever. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/11.htm
As is usually is the case, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor got it right in her 2020 dissent. High schools run by the Catholic Church admit students of all religious backgrounds. (At least the ones I’m aware of in California. And interestingly, they use that to recruit some of the best high school athletes.) Religion classes taught on Catholic ideology and pray time have an opt out for non-adherents. They are allowed to take an alternative class or the equivalent of study hall. So if the students have an opt out, why not the non-religious instruction staff? There appears to be a double standard between those the school accepts money from (enrolled students) and those they pay money out to (staff). The situation is probably much worse at schools run by evangelical Protestant churches, many of which are barely disguised indoctrination centers.
Fascinating. I shall be looking into this.
Religion is a tool of subjugation devised by men to assure their ongoing control by surmounting reason with the infallibility of belief.
Utter and complete madness.
I know that you Substack readers are for the most part members of our society that know something is up. And you know that the ski has been falling for quite some time. Understanding that the ski is falling is only the first step. We can’t wait 30 years like we have with Global Warming to start doing something about it. As Robert J. Rei says in this post, believers have been working tirelessly to bring about their utopia by subjugating all of humanity that does not believe as they do. Why don’t we hear about this in the media as the biggest story of our time? Because it is another inconvenient truth that no one wants to hear.
Go to your neighbors and friends and bring up the ugly subject of politics. Ask if they watch Fox News. If they do, drop the subject. If they don’t, ask them if they know of Project 2025 and the Supreme Court rulings solidifying religious immunity and the transfer of education from tax paid public to tax paid religious schools. Then just reassure them that they really need to vote this November because their freedom if not their lives depend upon it.
Mr Robert J. Rei makes it quite clear. His research and facts are accurate and comprehensive. What America’s founders feared the most is beliefs overcoming critical thinking. That is why they insisted upon the separation of church and state and an electoral college, a body of critical thinkers who would have the ability to overcome the efforts of the ignorant and inexperienced voters to move the government into authoritarian rule. And they knew that even that attempt to check and balance was flawed. Remember please that the founders of the Constitution were for the largest part wealthy colonists and most lost everything they owned, were killed, and saw their families torn apart just to make a stab at creating a country that would allow religious freedom for all. How avant-garde was their thinking? In comparison, Communism has no tolerance for any religion whatsoever. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/11.htm
Thank you Mr Rei.
All the best,
David
As is usually is the case, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor got it right in her 2020 dissent. High schools run by the Catholic Church admit students of all religious backgrounds. (At least the ones I’m aware of in California. And interestingly, they use that to recruit some of the best high school athletes.) Religion classes taught on Catholic ideology and pray time have an opt out for non-adherents. They are allowed to take an alternative class or the equivalent of study hall. So if the students have an opt out, why not the non-religious instruction staff? There appears to be a double standard between those the school accepts money from (enrolled students) and those they pay money out to (staff). The situation is probably much worse at schools run by evangelical Protestant churches, many of which are barely disguised indoctrination centers.
Excellent observations.