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MissThundercat said:
55% of Evangelicals
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People lie on political surveys, especially conservatives. It's like a game for them to try and skew the numbers or hide their true responses from what they assume are gubmint busybodies. And COVID-19 vaccination is, sadly, a political issue.
 
MissThundercat said:
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...-evangelicals/
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Good to see that Black Protestants are at least in the 70s. They have every right to be skittish, but I'm glad they got over it for the most part for COVID.

One thing fouling that data is poverty. I am certainly willing to bet that vaccination rates vary directly with resources, particularly education. Now, I don't think it is a surprise that say Evangelical Christianity goes hand in hand with poverty among whites: they draw from the same demographics. The authoritarian mindset of reactionary religions is going to align with personality and cognitive limitations that prevent people from achieving. But, insofar as the same effect is displayed among non-whites, at least there isn't the exacerbating factor of red hat dumbas-sery.
 
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I have Orpheus and Lot's Wife, but I'm looking for more mythology with the moral of "looking back while leaving a bad situation is wrong, regardless of sentimental attachment."
 
Today in history: Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of the Pope on SNL.

She was right about the sexual abuse, we just didn't know how right until later.
 
MissThundercat said:
Today in history: Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of the Pope on SNL.

She was right about the sexual abuse, we just didn't know how right until later.
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Is that why she did it?

I assumed it was the Catholic homophobia and misogyny.

You know, when you put it that way they don't seem very nice...
 
The Pope's on a roll here: https://www.vatican.va/content/fran...0211016-videomessaggio-movimentipopolari.html


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Personal change is necessary, but it is also indispensable to adjust our socio-economic models so that they have a human face, because many models have lost it. And thinking about these situations, I make a pest of myself with my questions. And I go on asking. And I ask everyone in the name of God.

I ask all the great pharmaceutical laboratories to release the patents. Make a gesture of humanity and allow every country, every people, every human being, to have access to the vaccines. There are countries where only three or four per cent of the inhabitants have been vaccinated.
In the name of God, I ask financial groups and international credit institutions to allow poor countries to assure “the basic needs of their people” and to cancel those debts that so often are contracted against the interests of those same peoples.

In the name of God, I ask the great extractive industries -- mining, oil, forestry, real estate, agribusiness -- to stop destroying forests, wetlands and mountains, to stop polluting rivers and seas, to stop poisoning food and people.

In the name of God, I ask the great food corporations to stop imposing monopolistic systems of production and distribution that inflate prices and end up withholding bread from the hungry.

In the name of God, I ask arms manufacturers and dealers to completely stop their activity, because it foments violence and war, it contributes to those awful geopolitical games which cost millions of lives displaced and millions dead.

In the name of God, I ask the technology giants to stop exploiting human weakness, people’s vulnerability, for the sake of profits without caring about the spread of hate speech, grooming, fake news, conspiracy theories, and political manipulation.

In the name of God, I ask the telecommunications giants to ease access to educational material and connectivity for teachers via the internet so that poor children can be educated even under quarantine.

In the name of God, I ask the media to stop the logic of post-truth, disinformation, defamation, slander and the unhealthy attraction to dirt and scandal, and to contribute to human fraternity and empathy with those who are most deeply damaged.

In the name of God, I call on powerful countries to stop aggression, blockades and unilateral sanctions against any country anywhere on earth. No to neo-colonialism. Conflicts must be resolved in multilateral fora such as the United Nations. We have already seen how unilateral interventions, invasions and occupations end up; even if they are justified by noble motives and fine words.

This system, with its relentless logic of profit, is escaping all human control. It is time to slow the locomotive down, an out-of-control locomotive hurtling towards the abyss. There is still time.

Together with the poor of the earth, I wish to ask governments in general, politicians of all parties, to represent their people and to work for the common good. I want to ask them for the courage to look at their own people, to look people in the eye, and the courage to know that the good of a people is much more than a consensus between parties (cf. Evangelii gaudium, 218). Let them stop listening exclusively to the economic elites, who so often spout superficial ideologies that ignore humanity's real dilemmas. May they be servants of the people who demand land, work, housing and good living. This aboriginal good living or buen vivir is not the same as “la dolce vita” or “sweet idleness”, no. This is good human living that puts us in harmony with all humanity, with all creation.

I also want to ask all of us religious leaders never to use the name of God to foment wars or coups (cf. Document on Human Fraternity, 2019). Let us stand by the peoples, the workers, the humble, and let us struggle together with them so that integral human development may become a reality. Let us build bridges of love so that the voices of the periphery with their weeping, but also with their singing and joy, provoke not fear but empathy in the rest of society.
 
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