It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
- Mark Twain
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@fatsam I thought for years that Mark Twain was quoted as saying that "God is a malign thug."
Twain was not a fan, but that quote wasn't his. Probably where I got it:
Harlan Ellison, in the Los Angeles Free Press, in 1968:
“Mark Twain it was, when once asked why such awful things went on in the world, confided with sincerity to the woman who had inquired, that it was because the universe is run by God and God (so saith Clemens), ‘Is a malign thug.’”
Harlan was not a fan of God, either.
@steveperry @fatsam If I believed in the same god as the Screaming Jeezus People, I'd hasten to volunteer to serve in the army of hell.
@steveperry @fatsam Given that the authoritarian right are *always* about projection—every accusation is a confession, etc—and the Christian Dominionists are on the far right, it follows that their feverish vision of the hosts of hell is simply what they themselves secretly want to get up to. But that excessively joyless debauchery and tormenting your enemies forever shtick feels a bit peurile to me.
Look, I know my enemies are not stupid: the people who work for the billionaires aren't. I've been one of them, though not in explicitly ideological work, and have known more billionaires directly than most as a result.
The billionaires themselves are a slightly above average bunch.
The working conservatives are, by and large, dumb as rocks.
Puerile doesn't begin to describe it.
But those people are cannon fodder.
