Why do Progressives Hate Religion?

[CrusaderFrank]

Thread after thread after thread started by USMB Libs and their socks has made me ask Why do Progressives Hate Religion?

 

[JoeB131]

Thread after thread after thread started by USMB Libs and their socks has made me ask Why do Progressives Hate Religion?

You mean why do we hate people using bronze age superstitions rationalize their homophobia, sexism, greed and mean-spiritedness?

The question answers itself.

 

[AVG-JOE]

I don't hate religion. I hate religious based politics.

The price of engaging in religious politics is a proportional amount of freedom.

 

[Vigilante]

Ethics, morals and principles, are NOT in the Progs playbook!

 

[HenryBHough]

Progressives do NOT hate religion.

Progressivism IS their religion and they love it.

 

[Rikurzhen]

Progressives do NOT hate religion.

Progressivism IS their religion and they love it.

Coises, Coises, foiled again. Ar' matey, you be sayin' what I be meanin' to be sayin'.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Why do Progressives Hate Religion?

This fails as a straw man fallacy.

 

[Mr Natural]

Progressives do NOT hate religion.

Progressivism IS their religion and they love it.

It makes about as much sense as any other religion.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You mean why do we hate people using bronze age superstitions rationalize their homophobia, sexism, greed and mean-spiritedness?

The question answers itself.

^ bad ape DNA

 

[BreezeWood]

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funny you fail to mention which religion ... no, Republicanism is just something to laugh at.

 

[idb]

Thread after thread after thread started by USMB Libs and their socks has made me ask Why do Progressives Hate Religion?

Muhammed Ali is a progressive and Muslim.
Your premise is wrong.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Why do Republicans hate every religion (out of hundreds) except for one?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Why do Republicans hate every religion (out of hundreds) except for one?

Oh sorry vigilante I guess you you guys like Judaism too. Even though you don't want Hannukah and passover in schools and they think that Mary was a whore mother of a bastard son. You crazy gentile.

 

[Rikurzhen]

The Religion of Liberalism:

On the other side, liberalism is now not merely a political philosophy compatible with many kinds of religion but has itself become a religion. Although the social sciences have long defined religion in very broad terms, it is expedient for liberals that their movement not be seen as a religion, since it thereby escapes the accusations of dogmatism and intolerance that are routinely made against conventional religions. Liberalism is a religion because, for liberals, ultimate meaning lies in a commitment both to the ever-expanding welfare state, which is the fulfillment of the ideal of justice, and to the continuing liberation of individuals from all binding authority, which is the key to personal happiness.
 Liberal ideology ultimately rests on an act of faith.

It can never be discredited by historical events, because the believer simply knows it to be right. Liberal ideas are considered self-evidently true, and, in their present ascendancy, liberals prefer merely to assert those ideas rather than discuss them. The religion of liberalism makes demands on the individual that traditional religion is no longer allowed to make.

The principal religious divide in America cuts across denominational lines on a diagonal, so that the religion of liberalism encompasses most “mainline” Protestants, many Catholics, most Jews, and (most significantly) those who are categorized as non-church-members or unbelievers.

The history of liberal Christianity and Reform Judaism is essentially the story of progressive emancipation from the binding authority of creeds, so that those movements have finally become anti-credal, thereby enabling the new religion of liberalism to encompass people who are agnostics and even atheists. Conversely, orthodox Christians and Jews are necessarily regarded by liberals with a high degree of suspicion, because they threaten a reversion to credal dogmatism.​

 

[TheOldSchool]

The Religion of Liberalism:

On the other side, liberalism is now not merely a political philosophy compatible with many kinds of religion but has itself become a religion. Although the social sciences have long defined religion in very broad terms, it is expedient for liberals that their movement not be seen as a religion, since it thereby escapes the accusations of dogmatism and intolerance that are routinely made against conventional religions. Liberalism is a religion because, for liberals, ultimate meaning lies in a commitment both to the ever-expanding welfare state, which is the fulfillment of the ideal of justice, and to the continuing liberation of individuals from all binding authority, which is the key to personal happiness.
 Liberal ideology ultimately rests on an act of faith.

It can never be discredited by historical events, because the believer simply knows it to be right. Liberal ideas are considered self-evidently true, and, in their present ascendancy, liberals prefer merely to assert those ideas rather than discuss them. The religion of liberalism makes demands on the individual that traditional religion is no longer allowed to make.

The principal religious divide in America cuts across denominational lines on a diagonal, so that the religion of liberalism encompasses most “mainline” Protestants, many Catholics, most Jews, and (most significantly) those who are categorized as non-church-members or unbelievers.

The history of liberal Christianity and Reform Judaism is essentially the story of progressive emancipation from the binding authority of creeds, so that those movements have finally become anti-credal, thereby enabling the new religion of liberalism to encompass people who are agnostics and even atheists. Conversely, orthodox Christians and Jews are necessarily regarded by liberals with a high degree of suspicion, because they threaten a reversion to credal dogmatism.​

^ Infidel/gentile nonsense

 

[Vigilante]

Why do Republicans hate every religion (out of hundreds) except for one?

Oh sorry vigilante I guess you you guys like Judaism too. Even though you don't want Hannukah and passover in schools and they think that Mary was a whore mother of a bastard son. You crazy gentile.

I'm agnostic, you silly imbecile!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Why do Republicans hate every religion (out of hundreds) except for one?

I left out "Religion is the opiate of the people"

 

[TheOldSchool]

Why do Republicans hate every religion (out of hundreds) except for one?

Oh sorry vigilante I guess you you guys like Judaism too. Even though you don't want Hannukah and passover in schools and they think that Mary was a whore mother of a bastard son. You crazy gentile.

I'm agnostic, you silly imbecile!

Well aren't you special

That means, of course, you don't have an excuse for being an asshole anymore. Sound good?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Why do Republicans hate every religion (out of hundreds) except for one?

I left out "Religion is the opiate of the people"

What you left out is the least of your stupidity.

 

[sealybobo]

Thread after thread after thread started by USMB Libs and their socks has made me ask Why do Progressives Hate Religion?

Because religion makes people ignorant. Remember Footloose where the kids couldn't dance because of the religious elders?

Do you see how Muslims treat women?

Reagan and Bush have been able to hoo