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Chaplain Terry Nicholetti

"...moral judgments...are fundamental to social order..."

An unpopular thought to ponder:

Is not such fundamentalism supported by Americans' exposure to the copiousness of our contemporary wisdoms of convention?

Can you imagine our social order, instead, being inspired by the wisdom of our FATHER in Heaven as taught throughout the many stories our Holy Bible, e. g. Matthew 7:1 & Luke 6:37, Etc., Etc., Etc.

Such love would surely better homogenize Americans into a safer more peaceful United States of America, Eh!?

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I can barely wrap my mind around what you seem to be saying here. Willl keep trying, but I'm curious about why you think a homogenized populace is a desirarable outcome. The MAGA Republicans are homogenized behind their leader. The Evangelicals are supposedly homogenized behind their FATHER in heaven, though I suspect the real unifying factor is whiteness . USians from the late 1940s onward were homogenized by the anti-communistm of Joe McCarthy and others. And of course we have the examples of Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia . . .

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Hello Susanna J. Sturgis:

Perhaps the concept of homogenously should have been defined as, “Love thy neighbor as thyself, which is the desirable outcome needed to reunite the United States of America.

Remember now the comment you are referencing cautioned that it would be unpopular. This response is given for a better understanding hopefully.

(1). The Maggot republicans and all those complicit in their silent support of white supremacy’s bigotry not only hate color but also those who support love of neighbor of all colors.

(2). The clan of evangelicals are NOT Christians and do not know about our FATHER in Heaven. Christians are about love not the hate that spews from the frothing quivering lips of evangelicals against their neighbors of every color.

(3). USians, (quaint elocution!) of the 1940’s rallied around the pride of patriotism spurred on by the shared commonality due to anxiety of, “The Wars” and the “Fox-Hole-Effect” affecting American’s during daily preoccupation of the haltered of distant neighbors…

(4). Mao’s China, for just one example, authorization of executing female babies supported by the parents of those female babies certainly was not love of neighbor nor was hitler’s minions of extermination of over eight million jews an expression of neighborly love nor was the Stalinist labor camp referred to as Cannibal Island due to the depravity of cannibalism’s most extreme example hating neighbors.

Hopefully your mind will become calmed by understanding the ONLY WAY America can survive the republican’s slavery to their deceitfulness’ destruction of American Democracy is love of neighbor as oneself… one’s self.

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