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Iowa- Something something “I owe a” few hours of my evening for a dinner date… you and me. Didn’t come up with how to open the convo to get there but it works.

The GrOPe party

Worse yet this bullshit will still be baring its rotten fruit through next election cycle, and the fly brained public will run right back into the same window that blasted them in the face and blame the opposition party.

It’s not intolerance of spirituality and religion, There are plenty of neutral religions almost universally accepted as peaceful and left alone. Abrahamic religions unfortunately have a history of validating violence against nonbelievers. Anyone not in their accepted belief system is sub human and therefore fair game to treat as such, even other if not more so other competing sects.

Your initial post said religion and spirituality so I made some assumptions on your meaning.

This is a fun conversation FYI. So all living creatures have a spirituality construct that is required for them to survive millions of years. There are many social creatures on this planet, are you suggesting they all have a shared spirituality guiding their morals in order to survive. If so interesting thought, if not why are we required to have one but not them. My opinion is spirituality is a by product not a necessity.

It’s basic survival evolution. You don’t leave dangerous things around for fear of harm which goes against basic survival instinct. Everything that doesn’t evolve to survive goes extinct. All of our “morality” is to improve our chance of survival. Long ago we evolved to seek food and reproduce, it all stems from that. If you want to pin that basic life programming on some sort of source, I can get behind that to a degree, beyond that you cannot prove any interaction of religious entity. It’s our pattern recognition brains filling in the gaps with our own unique stuffing based on individual surroundings and oral/written tradition. Once again it’s all survival instincts because fear of the unknown can create anxiety, stress and ill health. When a child asks why, we have to alleviate their fear even if we don’t actually know the answers, hence fairy tales and religion, otherwise known as lies. You lie the same lie enough and you start to believe it yourself as true.

A few things come to my mind on why.

1. We aren’t fresh off of WW2 when a large portion of the planet was personally affected, extremely sensitive and aware of the impact government overreach can cause.
2. We aren’t bored, we have all these highly refined dopamine injecting options, maybe not nefarious in nature but keeps many of us docile and complacent.
3. Extremely effective propaganda to muddy the waters on what’s actually going on and what a united peoples opinion even is.
4. Globalization of the money, I believe on the grand scheme, the money players are softly united behind the scenes and not backing one side or the other but playing the middle ground class war. So no big money to support a cause.