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• The point of this book is to highlight another significant and dangerous characteristic of Scum America: it is endemically hypocritical, and in the worst way—religiously hypocritical. Scum America proclaims loudly its moral superiority by waving the banner of self-righteous Christianity. But Scum Christianity is the same as Scum Patriotism: it’s th...
• Scummers don’t, and can’t, understand real Christianity. The reason is simple: Christ preached love, compassion, and mutual support. Scummers prefer hate, blame, and selfishness. It is utter folly to expect people like this to behave decently and ethically. So it is no surprise that they cleave to Trump, who tells them that their deviant behavior i...
• But the basic one, the one that generates so much damage in society is this: they think that morality depends on religion. And they have a particular spin on this belief generated by their deep-seated fear. Unlike real Christians, who know that they will act well if they love God with all their heart, mind, and soul, Republicans and Scummers think ...
• Trying to enforce good behavior by means of religion doesn’t work because it tries to use fear to control people.
• Why do so many people, then, seem to believe that religion can guarantee morality in society? Perhaps because they consider only childish aspects of behavior. Perhaps because they developed their ideas about how people behave when they were six or seven, and haven’t considered them more deeply since then.