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As Democrats fight down to the wire to save America and Republicans divest themselves of the last tattered shreds of decency it’s important to take a brief moment and really investigate what got us to this point and the role religion played in it.
Unless multiple Republicans have a sudden attack of morality and either withhold their votes or refuse to confirm Amy Coney Barrett she will be sworn in at the White House after the vote. Said proposed ceremony is said to have all the safeties imposed at the Rose Garden event where her nomination was announced and COVID-19 was apparently included in the swag bag.
But then, Rush Limbaugh is dying of lung cancer after taunting and publicly mocking women who could not receive care for ovarian cancer, so I suppose God has a sense of humour. I would however, like to politely implore the almighty to hurry it up.
As I’ve covered previously with varying levels of flippancy, Amy Coney Barrett has falsely claimed to be religious and specifically Catholic. In general, and Barrett is really a prime example of this people who are irreligious tend to insist loudly and repeatedly that they are actually terribly faithful and that their religion informs their actions and is why they just have to do the terrible thing because it’s not for them, no…
