“This is how we should order our lives together,” he said. “And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but this is good and right and just if it lines up with God’s standards, and I am going to enforce my morality on you in as much as our morality is God’s morality.”
“You should always check yourselves,” he continued. “Do I believe what God believes? Am I defending what God says is good?”
“And if it is, then you should have the courage to say, ‘This is how we’re going to run our town, this is how we’re going to run our county, this is how we’re going to run our state, and this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.'”
That’s because you invented your idea of God to match your own prejudices.
Humans have beliefs and opinions. If you think that which creates and sustains the universe has beliefs and opinions, it strongly suggests you’re overly likening it to yourself. Once again, you’re projecting your own prejudices.
Just another case of assholes inventing God in their own image and claiming it went the other way round.
If these guys were going to impose, say, the Quaker interpretation of “the” Bible on America, I might not mind quite so much.
But no, these jerkoffs always take up the most ridiculously hateful and tyrannical version of xtianity that conservatives can find. It’s the most hateful version they can find to validate all their preconceived notions of morality.
Kinda weird how that works - people with a decent set of morality join up with things like Quakers, or the UUs, or something like that.
People with extreme conservative views join up with the militaristic groups that want to back Israel in order to bring about their end of the world fantasies.
It’s almost like they treat “the” bible like a Rorschach blot, and that’s if they’ve even read the thing.