re: God Is Now Trump’s Co-Conspirator (The New York Times, 2019, October 15)
If your morals are founded on the despotic dictates of a Middle Eastern patriarch who set the standard in sexism, racism and zealous intolerance of reason, facts and good morals, then you have a serious moral problem.
And as the facts noted by Krugman show, as has long been known, less religious societies correlate strongly with higher morals reflected in less violence and other crimes, and greater respect for other persons.
In the 21st century, how can anyone take seriously the faith-based (a euphemism for absolute rejection of critical thinking) commands of a fake deity who amuses himself with commanding fathers to kill their own sons (Abraham) and commanding wholesale slaughter for consenting adults loving each other in unapproved ways? And who is, in the best tradition of the ancient Middle East, very tolerant of slavery and other evils? That is true moral corruption. That is what America should be greater than.
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The above comments were submitted as two by Felix Qui to the The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/trump-william-barr-speech.html#commentsContainer&permid=103108432:103108432
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