Isn’t jealousy why they hate iran?
The Handmaid’s Tale, was in turn, partly based on how Iran went from an absolute kingdom with a secular urban culture and lifestyle to a male-dominated theocracy.
That the US began largely as a string of colonies run by religious officials, an arrangement those megalomaniacal evangelists are trying to bring back, those pricks literally believing they’re on “holy” land and must live up to it.
emmy67@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But they left Europe in part to get away from church government. First amendment and all that. Most of them were religious but they wanted it out of government.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And now they’re putting up a fascist theocracy. The irony.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No, they wanted other people’s religion out of government
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They were not even the same religions as one-another, so that makes no sense. Also, there’s no basis for that idea.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah but they each wanted to be in charge. Authoritarians always do. They settled for neutrality
Triasha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some of them wanted it out of government. The fundies of the day we’re willing to go along because their parents and grandparents were chased out of England for being wackados.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The point is that they put the separation of church and state right into the constitution in the first amendment. The fact that they codified it as such, established that it was a primary principle they wanted for the nation’s foundational philosophy.