I think the right made up that the left believed in that theory.
I also don’t think comparing a supposed left wing conspiracy that has no real traction or major players behind it, to a theory that resulted in the murders of millions of Jews or a theory that is so bizzare that no one other than the current president believed it, is really helping your case.
Nice source there @pfury (The Christian Science Monitor) 
I do think conspiracy theories are common on both sides, because people in general lack logic and reasoning. I mean I posted some polls above from pew and gallup, and the amount of people who believe things like the earth is under 10,000 years old is far to high in both parties.
How many people believe in a young Earth because of religion, and how many believe it because they didn’t pay attention in science class?
Overall, it is roughly 50% of Americans. I find that truly sad. It makes me pessimistic that we will survive as a species long term.
I think our education system has failed in getting people to think critically.
Personally, I am a humanist, and have rejected religion. I find that religious people are generally well meaning, but that does not mean religion is perfect. In my own family, religion has caused harm to my gay uncle. I can’t for the life of me find a reason as to why homosexuality is wrong morally, yet the pain he has gone through do to religious family members is reprehensible. Additionally, I as an atheist have taken the burden upon myself to never share my lack of belief with my parents as it would hurt them greatly. I wish they were not so extreme, and I will likely be an atheist in a pew to appease my mother. I can’t be myself in front of my parents because of their beliefs. It makes me sad.
I oppose religion’s opposition to science when it does not line up with their teachings. I would rather have questions I can’t answer, than to have answers I can’t question.
I oppose (mostly in US) religion getting into bed with the republican party. If you want to be the biggest PAC around, you should no longer be tax exempt.
I do support religious people doing community service and such, but personally I would rather give a homeless person a free meal vs. a free meal after listening to a sermon.
Rant over.
Some conspiracy theories at least have potential evidence and plausibility. Obviously not all.
I’m not sure of potential evidence for a young earth that doesn’t directly refute an asston of science.
Although I am not well versed in people who are fucking idiots.
I’m not sure
I feel you on keeping your beliefs quiet with parents. I’m an atheist but my dad was a fire and brimstone Baptist deacon. He knew I wasn’t like him and I suspect he knew why but we usually avoided the subject of religion till the day he died almost a year ago. After that, I’ve come out to most of my other family and the response was “yeah we kinda figured you were” . I guess it was obvious to those who knew me most.
I have changed my thinking a bit sense losing my faith. I used to be of the opinion that being truthful is always best. Now I see my untruthfulness as a burden I can take to spare my parents the thought of their son burning in hell.
I can tell there is no swaying them. If I thought that perhaps they could get past religion, I might step out on a limb, but that is not happening in my estimation.
I find flat earthers and young earthers really interesting. Like I’m genuinely very curious how they can explain things like dinosaurs, radiocative decay, geology, ends of the Earth, other planets, etc, etc.
But whenever I watch a documentary it ends up mostly focusing on a specific person and their story instead of just the beliefs.
So the corollary would be that this would be even more troubling - a POTUS receiving foreign policy briefings directly from the KGB?
No. US decision to suspend aid to Chiang post WW2 was influenced by a myriad of factors - not least because his troops were spectacularly ineffective and most of the war materiel ended up in Communist hands without a shot being fired. The Nationalists were also plagued by chronic infighting and Chiang surrounded himself with several henchmen with strongly anti-American views. It was obvious by late 1946 that they were done.
Besides, where were all those communist sympathizers during the Korean War?
Supporting Batista and to a lesser degree Castro.
But you never find a documentary covering up this matchup. Why is the mainstream media covering this fight up?
https://external-preview.redd.it/V_3EtMjWvwQL0hMG2r7WFJEo5IuQpZjZ6VLvD-fWU_Q.jpg?auto=webp&s=3826e1abc78ab321fb224a8b8c7b5c1441fcb82fFINALLY! (And it ain’t from the Left, by any means…)
In a harshly worded editorial, the editor of Christianity Today ; the evangelical magazine founded by Billy Graham ; called for President Trump to be removed from office.
“The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents,” Mark Galli wrote. “That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral”.
More so than the Mueller investigation, Galli said that the impeachment hearings “have illuminated the president’s moral deficiencies for all to see.” He added, “None of the president’s positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character.”
Galli accused the president of having “dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration,” pointing out that several of the people he’s hired are “now convicted criminals,” and noting that Mr. Trump remains “proud of” actions he’s taken in dealing with business and with women.
“His Twitter feed alone—with its habitual string of mischaracterizations, lies, and slanders—is a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused,” Galli stated.
A far left magazine, or very “progressive,” as some would call it, which has been doing poorly and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years, Christianity Today, knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call and would rather have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President. No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!
From trump’s Twitter. I don’t think trump has ever read Christianity Today, and it is a give away that he calls it ET.
(Yeah…like Trump read “Christianity Today” in the past…)
I guess it’s no surprise that Trump would immediately be on the attack…
Well there’s this match up.
Four decades before DC and the MCU, the Turkish exploitation cinema in the seventies covered pretty much all possible matchups from every nation’s pop culture you can think of.
You want Captain America vs. Spiderman vs. Lucha Libre Santo? You’ve got it.
Still more faithful to the original than the sequel trilogy.
If Trump gets removed we will be forced to change the math on this trump supporters t shirt who when called out about the fact that they were one terms and not two denied that being the case.
https://www-rawstory-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Trump-dynasty-T-shirt-768x413.pngCan’t pull up the story, but I’d have to assume those are just the election years…judging by the check beside “2016.” Not a clear or great design.
That would work. Except when told the years represent one term the man said no. And then he asked what the years for Ivanka was and was told 2024-2028. Then proceeded to say yeah that’s 8 years!
