“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.'”
I truly love telling some xtianist trying to lecture me on how I should do things this:
If you talk to some of these people, many don’t even seem to have any kind of understanding that there are millions of people that don’t accept their framing. Like, at all.
Telling them that trying to cite “the bible” at someone like me has as much of an effect as citing Harry Potter or Dianetics makes them just about glitch out. They want to find the right bit of their “scripture” that could be used like a spell on others and make them into another drone at their church. Ain’t going to happen: I don’t value your text like you do.