"What Chiefs kicker and expert sociologist Harrison Butker is saying is something very important to understand. In order to feel truly free, it's not enough for Harrison Butker and his fellow creepy religious bigots to live in the way they as Christians see fit for themselves....
"When Nazis are on the fringe, you have to really work to be a Nazi...but once Nazis are in the state capitols and the national government and the high courts, all you need to do in order to be a Nazi is just be willing to go along..."
-- A. R. Moxon
www.the-reframe.com/lying-to-fas...
"They are going to need to force everyone else to live in whatever way they as Christians see fit to force others to live.They'll use democracy and law in order to do this if they can, but now that most decent people have had it with their shit, they'll demolish democracy and law in order to get it,
Yeah, their definition of freedom is not yours or mine. They have no interest in a sense of shared freedom where we're all in a kind of mix of "oops, you got your freedom in my peanut butter, how do we sort it out" kind of thing. They want absolute control over our behavior so they can be "free."
That's why they hate concepts of democracy and equity and equal rights and stuff. Most of the time, it's not been okay to say that publicly, but now they're all good with shouting it from the rooftops.
I am free only in so far as I don't affect them in any way.
It's one thing to think that because you're rich and powerful and think your will goes. But when you mix that with "and God told me I was the most specialist boy and I don't have to share my toys if I don't want to," you get these assholes.
James Robison referred to this as "the freedom interests of Christians." When I heard him say that years ago, I got chills---I felt in it what is coming true.