What's worse in the US now? To be a Muslim or an atheist?
Hard to say, really. Obviously you have hordes of ignorant thickoes terrified of Muslims; at the same time, those thickoes seem to think it's to Muslims' credit that at least they're completely irrational they have faith. Atheists, according to the current rubric coming from the ignoramus faux-Xtian US Right, are ethical scum and likely tools of Satan because it is impossible to have any morality at all unless it is based in the bosom of Jesus -- you know, the God-given morality and spiritual hi-piety that brought us, say, the Ku Klux Klan and the Spanish Inquisition.
It's all very hard to understand unless you live here. While the US has some of the best universities, etc., in the world, it has an extraordinary bulk of citizens who, to the nearest decimal point, have no education at all -- who are quite extraordinarily ignorant, and who expect their ignorance to be pandered to. Natch, various corporate interests are only too happy to do the pandering, because they recognize the commercial value of having a large population of ignorant fuckwits who'll do what they're told.
Not with a bang but with a deliberate rejection of the intelligence that has brought us the distance we've got: somehow, more pathetic than any whimper.
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What's worse in the US now? To be a Muslim or an atheist?
Hard to say, really. Obviously you have hordes of ignorant thickoes terrified of Muslims; at the same time, those thickoes seem to think it's to Muslims' credit that at least
they're completely irrationalthey have faith. Atheists, according to the current rubric coming from the ignoramus faux-Xtian US Right, are ethical scum and likely tools of Satan because it is impossible to have any morality at all unless it is based in the bosom of Jesus -- you know, the God-given morality and spiritual hi-piety that brought us, say, the Ku Klux Klan and the Spanish Inquisition.It's all very hard to understand unless you live here. While the US has some of the best universities, etc., in the world, it has an extraordinary bulk of citizens who, to the nearest decimal point, have no education at all -- who are quite extraordinarily ignorant, and who expect their ignorance to be pandered to. Natch, various corporate interests are only too happy to do the pandering, because they recognize the commercial value of having a large population of ignorant fuckwits who'll do what they're told.
Not with a bang but with a deliberate rejection of the intelligence that has brought us the distance we've got: somehow, more pathetic than any whimper.