Lemdro.id
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Biden Says U.S. Not Founded On Religion, But People Are In “Image of God”

2paragraphs.com

external-link
message-square
61
fedilink
120
external-link

Biden Says U.S. Not Founded On Religion, But People Are In “Image of God”

2paragraphs.com

Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
message-square
61
fedilink
Biden subordinates religion's role in the founding of America -- with the direct implication that the United States is not strictly a "Christian nation" as many claim.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Do you know how many worse things I could list about Trump? Shall we start with how he let a million Americans die with his COVID policy?

    • hark@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Feel free to list them. As for COVID, Biden was just as eager to open things up, he was just lucky that the vaccine became a thing as he entered office, so he could fast-track that (Trump tried to sabotage the rollout on his way out because he’s a sore loser). Lockdowns weren’t popular among the capitalist class because of the impact to business, and you can see they weren’t taken seriously with a number of politicians flouting lockdown rules (including democrats). As a reminder, Bush was warned about a potential terrorist attack happening and then let 9/11 happen on his watch, then used that as an excuse to launch two wars and install a vast surveillance apparatus, secret courts, and a torture program.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Okay, let’s start with all the “great” things Trump did for queer people. (I’m guessing you will handwave all of this away.)

        https://www.hrc.org/news/the-list-of-trumps-unprecedented-steps-for-the-lgbtq-community

        • hark@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Do you think bush was some sort of champion of LGBT rights? He also attacked them as a distraction. It’s a common republican tactic.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            I never said he was. I did predict you would handwave that away though. Thanks for proving me right.

            • hark@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              We’re doing a comparison. Me pointing out that Bush was just as bad in this regard is not a “handwave” it’s part of the comparison. Your “many worse things” list turned out to be a damp squib.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 year ago

                You pointed out that he was just as bad. You didn’t provide any evidence to that effect.

                • hark@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/politics/bush-backs-ban-in-constitution-on-gay-marriage.html

                  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=122050

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    2
                    ·
                    1 year ago

                    So… not as bad.

Atheism@lemmy.world

atheism@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !atheism@lemmy.world

Community Guide


Archive Today will help you look at paywalled content the way search engines see it.


Statement of Purpose

  • This is a support and conversation community for people who don’t believe in gods.
  • Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
  • If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.

Acceptable

  • Honest questions or conversations.
  • Discussions on parenting or advice.
  • Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
  • Atheist memes. We can have fun!
  • News headlines relevant to atheism.

Unacceptable

Depending on severity, you might be warned before adverse action is taken.

  • Anything against site rules.
  • Illegal and/or NSFW material.
  • Troll posts and comments. There will be no attempt to explain what that means.
  • Leading questions, agenda pushing, or disingenuous attempts to bait members.
  • Personal attacks or flaming.

Inadvisable

  • Self promotion or upvote farming.
  • Excessive shitposting or off-topic discussion.

Application of warnings or bans will be subject to moderator discretion. Feel free to appeal. If changes to the guidelines are necessary, they will be adjusted.


If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a group that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of any other group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you you will be banned on sight.

Provable means able to provide proof to the moderation, and, if necessary, to the community.

 ~ /c/nostupidquestions

If you want your space listed in this sidebar and it is especially relevant to the atheist or skeptic communities, PM DancingPickle and we’ll have a look!


Connect with Atheists

  • Matrix: #atheism:envs.net

Help and Support Links

  • Freedom From Religion Foundation
  • The Secular Therapy Project
  • Secular Students Alliance
  • Black Nonbelievers
  • The Clergy Project
  • Atheist Alliance International
  • Sunday Assembly
  • Atheist Ireland
  • Atheism UK
  • Atheists United

Streaming Media

This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.

  • Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
  • Rationality Rules
  • Friendly Atheist
  • Making Sense with Sam Harris
  • Cosmic Skeptic
  • Genetically Modified Skeptic
  • Street Epistemology
  • Armored Skeptic
  • NonStampCollector

Orgs, Blogs, Zines

  • Center for Inquiry
  • American Atheists
  • Humanists International
  • Atheist Republic
  • The Brights
  • The Angry Atheist
  • History for Atheists
  • Rationalist International
  • Atheist Revolution
  • Debunking Christianity
  • Godless Mom
  • Atheist Freethinkers

Mainstream

  • Independent
  • The Guardian
  • Newsweek
  • The New York Times
  • Salon
  • The Conversation
  • The New Yorker
  • HuffPost

Bibliography

Start here…

  • The Bible
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • The Quran
  • The Book of Mormon
  • Adi Granth

…proceed here.

  • God is Not Great (Hitchens)
  • The God Delusion (Dawkins)
  • The End of Faith (Harris)
  • Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
  • Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)

Proselytize Religion

  • Convince an Atheist

From Reddit

As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.

  • Coming Out
  • Seeking Asylum
  • Want to Debate?
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 143 users / week
  • 508 users / month
  • 2.85K users / 6 months
  • 8 local subscribers
  • 4.67K subscribers
  • 699 Posts
  • 9.32K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
  • UI: 0.19.8
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org