I wish people would think more about what they're saying

[thewayne]

Yesterday I read an article on NPR about a judge in Alabama who was eventually censured for having a sort of display case of the ten commandments in his court room, he finally lost his job. He's now running for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, and is pretty much touting this to appeal to fundamentalist voters

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[silveradept]

Yes, but We're Right. Those devil-worshipping Muslims with their false god will get whatever they deserve until they become Christians and join the Good Guys.

But yeah, that's pretty much the justification of the fundamentalist and the totalitarian. We must immediately abandon progress and go back to tradition (the traditions that benefit me, anyway) or the world will become full of degenerates and society will collapse.