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Here is the text of the bill so you can read it for yourself.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023677
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/888/text
i thought these people went to expensive schools why the fuck does every line start with WHEREAS fucking hell
Linguistic inertia. The evil rich white dudes who wrote the sacred texts used language that way so now congress has to until the end of this cursed nation.
That's just how governments do resolutions typically. Tradition or some shit
The CPC's refusal to legislate using classical Chinese infuriates me.
Why? Really stupid thing to get mad about
I'm mostly joking. The move to more plain language happened under the RoC. It'd be pretty funny if they undid it as a fuck u tho.
Most of them really didn't, a decent minority of the House didn't go to college at all. I looked up the guy who sponsored this resolution and he has a bachelors degree from a college with a 75% acceptance rate
Robert's rules.
888
blood and soil fascist proclamation
Jesus fucking christ. This treats Biblical fanfiction as the foundation for modern realpolitik.
This is all part of Mormonism's plot for world domination
This may be funny like a joke but I'm dead serious
We love the Separation of church and state don’t we folks
While yes, certain (sometimes large) parts of (usually) monotheistic religions are definitely incompatable with progress and human decency, that mostly comes down to, imo, extreme adherence to traditionalism and intellectual stagnation among the believers of those faiths. Now certainly, polytheism has , occasionally, given a lot of people a very bad time. But, and this may not be the best example, I don't often hear about hinduism, shinto, or taoism being involved in human rights violations/ genocides. Now, I'm not as well informed on those as I should be, admittedly, but you can see what I mean.
I agree that religion is partially responsible for the ever worsening state of the world, but it's not, like, the root cause. Not every rich asshole thinks it was ordained by god for them to be a rich asshole, sometimes (most of the time, even) rich people are just assholes, usually because they're rich. That may be an over simplification, but like, come on. In a world where traditionalism is less a rule and more a suggestion, religion could evolve properly and be less problematic, it's just that, currently, that's not going to happen.
Idk if this is at all coherent; I'm just trying to say that defining religion as just EVIL isn't the awesomely correct take you seem to think it is, imo.
Hinduism is absolutely violent...it's the basis of the caste system. Shinto is a religion in which there is no religious practice; it is basically just respect for nature and for known pioneers and geniuses of various disciplines. It exists alongside Buddhism, which is a philosophy more than a religion yet there are still violent and oppressive sects of Buddhism. Taoism is philosophical and based on enlightenment rather than serving any gods. It us often defined as a philosophy and not a religion at all.
As for tradition: we have learned ad nauseum that religios tradition leads to destruction and death. I stand by my statement.
We've never been persecuted or expelled in North America though.
Native groups need to take this up, the exact language can certainly apply (and in their case the documentation is a few hundred years old and well agreed upon, vs based on mythology that certainly doesn't apply to Ashkenazi jews at the very least). Unfortunately logical consistency isn't a winning argument so it wouldn't do much.
Oh fuck off. I was going to do something cute like suggest Zionophobic. The US government when me and a neo nazi are in the same room
So next bill, affirm support for the creation of a state for every minority group historically persecuted and pushed out of their homeland right?