fwiw, I definitely didn’t understand you to be arguing for theocracy. I‘m just a bit (a lot concerned) about reactionaries dominating the field of natural-law arguments in an avowedly christian context and using left appeals to NL argument to legitimate themselves.

Like, yes, in principle, you can make it all compatible. but you don’t get to make history as you choose.

I think that in the United States in the current year, the political economy of avowedly Christian natural law argumentation is just too skewed in a bad direction to make this anything but a last resort

Agreed. something is going on, but I don’t care what. He shouldn’t have said it.

The full context of those comments makes very clear that QT is just being a dick

Now I am, and so are you

He did contend that properly understood Jesus’s teachings made ethical sense and could serve as the basis of a nonsectarian civic religion that was good for everyone but…. He thought the incarnation was totally incoherent

lol no

Yeah that’s dumb and mean and I assume personal

You’re right, lie is generous

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all snark aside, this is just flatly inconsistent with currently existing statutes, never mind the constitution. That’s literally why reactionaries are proposing a bill to get rid of it.

This is just silly

Yeah they’ll probably edit the website