"Pro-family", "family friendly", "family values", and similar phrases are pretty much all dogwhistles for "Christian values" but not the values that actually help anyone (love thy neighbor, etc).
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These "Christians" would already have shipped Jesus to gitmo.
Something something bootstraps.
Aside from a funeral and a couple of weddings, I haven't set foot in a church since I moved out on my own. However, I would absolutely sit down for a service where the preacher read passages from the New Testament with the moral of the sermon being "Are we the baddies?"
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You need the Satanic temple for these actual tenets that they supposedly stand for.
That's the satanic temple. The church of Satan is a completely different thing.
Yeah sorry, corrected it just around when you posted.
So not really Christian values.
I mean, they are 100% Christian values though they're not Christ's values.
I like this Jesus fellow, but his fan club is the worst.
Paraphrased, and can't recall who said it (I thought it was George Carlin but can't find the quote).
There is a quote that often makes it around the internet mis attributed to Ghandi says something along those lines. The most likely origin is speculated to be Indian philosopher Bara Dada in the mid-1920s : "Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians, you are not like him."
Okay, so this was interesting to me, since Bara Dada isn't really a name. It literally means elder brother in Bengali. (Although most speakers will shorten it to Borda in everyday conversation.) I did a bit of searching, and the quote seems to come from Dwijendranath Tagore, the eldest brother of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath did refer to Dwijendranath as Bara Dada (Boro Dada would be the better pronunciation) in his writings, and Dwijendranath was a philosopher and poet so it makes sense. The original quote seems to be, "Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians -- you are not like him." which is found in the book The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones.
neat, I learn new things today
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They're dog whistles for needing more babies to keep the pyramid scheme that is our economy afloat.
Subjugating women, hating the gays, blocking birth control; it's all to pop out more babies.
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They're never gonna restore "traditional" families if they never support a family being able to actually survive on a single income.
This. I would love it if my wife had the option to stay home. We're luckier than most, so she probably could, but our budget would be uncomfortably tight if she did. And actually, if she made as much as I do, it'd probably be me staying home and doing the cooking and cleaning and errands. I love that shit and hate work, and the excessive hours I work keep me from helping around the house as much as I would like.
The kind of people we're talking about wouldn't let you stay home with the kids.
They expect men to be killing themselves in un-safety-regulated jobs for the sake of increasing the wealth of the billionaires while all women stay home playing Suzy Homemaker and popping out white babies.
That's their vision.
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That's how you can tell they lying about their goals.
survive on a single income.
“PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY”!
Boom, they’ve invalidated the argument. Trickle down & FSD coming at end of year.
"Family Values" has always been code for "Women are Cattle"
*Chattel
I was referencing the parts of the bible that cover animal husbandry and include how to manage women in the same section as the farm animals.
They're both basically the same word.
Serious question: They want all immigrants deported, illegal or not doesn't seems to matter any more. Those "aliens" do the work that the white nobility wouldn't do in the first place. Then they sent women back into the kitchen which will easily cut another 30% of the work force, probably much more. And then the tariffs are supposed to bring back manufacturing jobs (that said white nobility doesn't want to do in the first place). How do they think this is gonna work? cut the majority of your workforce and increase the demand of labor all while preventing higher salaries.
Prison labour
Easy, just bring back the 60 hour workweek or child labor.
They're already working on child labor in some states.
Slave labor.
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If women are supposed to be in the kitchen, why are most short order cooks men? Checkmate...
"Anything that doesn't serve my fascist agenda is unconstitutional."
Republican leaders are people who would watch The Handmaid's Tale and think they're supposed to agree with the villains
He couldn't handle a strong woman.
When they say pro-family it seems like they mean pro-huaband and maybe pro-kids
Yeah
"Restoring traditional families"
That probably means they expect me to go to church, negotiate with the businessmans daughter with a dowry, and control the rest of her life while maintaining she shows that she is happy because I technically would feel awful the entire time.
I'm blissfully ignoring what they want as that "traditional" age to marry on purpose. That just makes my stomach churn knowing these freaks
Restoring traditional families
Always means women can’t think or speak, and black people work their fields in chains
Cool, so that means you should also have one car that might last 5 years, no cellphones, computers, and back to radio shows only. You can only live and breathe your job with little to no entertainment.
Yeah, it’s great living in the past isn’t it?
You can only live and breathe your job with little to no entertainment.
Not to diminish your point, but back then they still had (often walkable) "third places." That included social clubs -- think the freemasons, shriners, the "water buffalo lodge" from the Flintstones (since that what Millennials and younger are most likely to be familiar with), etc. They also knew their neighbors a lot better than we typically do today: most houses had substantial front porches generating ad-hoc conversions with people walking by, they more frequently had block parties, etc.
TL;DR: they got a lot of their entertainment though actual in-person human interaction.
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This gay boy is miserable
So many years of not being honest with oneself.
America has turned into a sad pathetic joke.
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