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Henry D. Keen retweeted
You'll never believe what happened to me! I was getting on the Interstate and the car in front of me on the on ramp used it to accelerate so that, when he reached the highway, he would be going the same speed as the traffic he needed to merge with.
Henry D. Keen retweeted
“A republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin shared these words in 1787 as a warning that our fragile new government was not guaranteed. The events we’ve faced in our country during the past 18 months underscore Franklin’s words of caution 239 years ago. The future of our country and our Constitution is up to each of us.
Henry D. Keen retweeted
The funniest part is that Canadians don’t even call it Canadian bacon. Only Americans do. We already call it ham.
Henry D. Keen retweeted
The Constitution doesn’t ask us to be loyal to the president.
It asks the president to be loyal to it.
There’s a big difference.
Henry D. Keen retweeted
The most unsettling part of this isn’t the political figure. It is the logic behind the justification.
Religion can become a powerful way of turning a personal decision into a sacred obligation. Instead of saying, “I support this person because I believe he is right,” the claim becomes, “I support this person because God wants me to.” Once an ordinary human judgment is framed as divine instruction, questioning the decision can be made to look like questioning God.
And this mechanism isn’t unique to Christianity, politics, or any particular person. Throughout history, people have invoked God to justify wars, rulers, discrimination, obedience, resistance, wealth, poverty, punishment, and political movements. The human action comes first or at least the human interpretation comes first and religion can then provide the moral authority for it.
That creates a dangerous psychological shortcut:
“I want to do X.” → “God wants me to do X.” → “Therefore X must be right.”
The problem is that claiming divine approval doesn’t make an action objectively moral. It simply makes the believer more certain that it is moral.
The harder question is therefore not “Did God tell you to do it?” but:
“How would you know that God told you to do it and how would you recognize if you were simply giving your own desires divine authority?”
That is where genuine moral scrutiny begins.
Because history is full of people who were absolutely convinced that God was on their side. Their certainty was not evidence that they were right.
Henry D. Keen retweeted
Too many Americans are turning a blind eye to the horrors unfolding right in front of them. The reality is that Trump's fascist, authoritarian regime is moving aggressively toward establishing mass concentration camps across the country — a terrifying echo of Auschwitz that journalists like Rachel Maddow have explicitly sounded the alarm on.