While I agree that part is silly, at least Talarico is using his belief to try to implement much-needed change.

Lotta folks that actually bother to vote are Christian, so I think he's Texas' best bet at turning blue.

So is my cat, who I worship, so that checks out.

Cat in question, who is very deserving of worship.

Turns out they also don't like it when you say that. It's like pick a lane people

Because magic sky daddy is the most important thing to many people in many places, all the time. Because they've been conditioned to believe that if someone doesn't hold the correct views on magic sky daddy, they'll suffer for all eternity, and so they live in constant fear that they or their children might become misled by the incorrect views on magic sky daddy. This stuff is deeply internalized.

Because stupid breads at a far greater rate than intelligent and educated people. Unless your one of those rightwing psychopaths that's all about seeding the population with your "superior" genetics.

That's a really poor translation. It sounds more like God gave the "you" reproductivity.

So you're saying God is so non binary that they are non gendered?

One of the basic problems with theists is that they have no idea what God is.

"God is love." In what way? God is just an emotion related to a chemical reaction in the brain?

"God is all powerful." Can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it?

"God is omniscient." If everything in the future is already known, then what's the point?

It just goes on and on. Either God is some vague impossibility, or he's exactly the same as a human male, somehow. But a human male is not the same as God, so that can't really be right. But nobody can even give a real framework as to what he could be.

If you can't describe God no matter how hard you try, then what the hell are you believing in? That's the basis for ignosticism.

And iirc, they are referred to using terms for both male and female in the original language of the text.

The Holy Throuple

The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit, gaymen.

God is dating his son???

I've had a pastor argue it a number of years ago and it did make sense at the time, it was based on how God referred to using a feminate city name or something similar

They aren't smart and they lack critical thinking skills. And that's just their voting base.

The ones that are smart are also rich sociopaths and psychopaths that are actively trying to excise empathy from their entire party.

I think it'd take less time to write down the things that aren't.

God is not allowed in the women's bathroom.

So do all your sinning there, he can't see you!

Aren't God's genitals painted on some ceiling somewhere?

Because Yaweh was originally male.

If it's any reassurance, the human race has historically been even stupider and less educated. It's better today by leaps and bounds.

100 years ago, the world literacy rate was in the 20-30% range. Today, it's ~85%.

The bad news is that the oligarchs use literacy as a weapon, through targeted media. So, yeah, it's not so much stupidity we're seeing, it's just brainwashing, pure and simple.