Not My Baby Jesus

The idea that religion or belief in religion makes someone a good person is nonsense. There, we said it. It’s like boozers or potheads. Whether someone drinks too much or smokes too much weed isn’t what makes them a good or bad person. What makes a good or bad person is how people treat each other. That’s it. Nobody, religious or otherwise, has a monopoly on goodness. It’s just not a thing that’s true. How we treat each other, and how we take care of others as well as ourselves, is the measure of the goodness in humanity, and right now, a lot of folks are ticking boxes in the ‘not good’ category.

Evangelicals are talking about how they do not want to accept any religion other than their own as being legitimate and worth protecting. Look, we can respect your freedom of religion all day long, but understand that to us, most religion is a tool. That’s it. It’s not worth killing over, it’s not worth even dying over really. The private communion between a person and their God has nothing to do with government, and never should.

A lot of people, many calling themselves Christian Nationalists, are of the opinion that religion should be first in everyone’s lives, meaning everyone needs to be Christian in this nation.

Simply no.

No. The United States has never been a Christian nation, and it’s not time to start. We saw how that worked in England back in the middle ages.