““Organized Religion and Organized Crime are two sides to the same coin. They both want to control you and they do it through fear. Organized crime threatens you with death of yourself and your loved ones; organized religion threatens you with eternal damnation.””

— Kalinysta

Tags: cross posted ∙ Kalinysta ∙ Technopagan Yearnings ∙ organized religion ∙ organized crime ∙ fear

““Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.””

— Rick Warren

Tags: Rick Warren ∙ culture ∙ lies ∙ lifestyle ∙ fear ∙ hate ∙ love ∙ agree ∙ nonsense ∙ compromise ∙ convictions ∙ compassionate

❝❝Democrats have been fear mongering too. Especially since Trump announced.

I'm not going to say who is right or wrong, but I am going to point out that both major parties have done fear mongering over decades. If that is one behavior you're questioning, you should ask why is it bad when "They" do it and good when "We" do it?

I too get tired of the dualism. But I don't see it limited to one party.

My blocked follower on this site would tell you that I am oversimplifying. I don't think I am. Both parties do it. Both parties are contributing to the problem. Both have media allies who sing their praises.❞❞

— NeoWayland, comments from Pagan Community Notes: Religious harassment at Florida Gathering, Calif. school removes Bible verse, and more!

Tags: maxims ∙ fear ∙ Democrats ∙ Republicans ∙ Donald Trump ∙ right ∙ wrong ∙ They ∙ We ∙ dualism ∙ media allies

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

Gore: Jet Stream 'Getting Loopier and Wavier,' So 'We Have a Global Emergency'

Trump snubs Feinstein, Harris to nominate conservative judges to liberal 9th Circuit

Mary Robinson on climate change: ‘Feeling “This is too big for me” is no use to anybody’

Italian Interior Minister prepares legislature for self-defence: “No trial for those who defend their property”

‘Bitcoin and Guns, That’s the Only Way to Save This Country’

Libertarian and Police Accountability Pages Deleted in Facebook Purge

Facebook has lost 30% of its value since July

500,000 Afghan migrants are ready to enter Europe via unprotected Turkish-Greek border area

Bear spray, bloody brawls at Patriot Prayer 'law and order' march in Portland

Dozens of Witches Gather to Place Public Hex on Brett Kavanaugh

Black Man Cuffed on His Own Property While Moving Into New Home

Venezuela Has Lost 13% of its Population in a Mass Exodus from Socialism

Fight Fizzles Before Police Arrive; Cops Start Tasing and Arresting People Anyway

Violence, Public Anger Erupts In China As Home Prices Slide

Lawsuit: KSP trooper attacks man after Facebook post

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in 'real legal jeopardy', GOP investigator says

Toronto's Sick Kids hospital preparing policy for euthanasia for youth over 18 that could one day apply to minors

Human 2.0 Is Almost Here: The Transhumanism Agenda Just Went Mainstream

The view from Saudi Arabia as world holds its breath

Thousands line up for zero-down-payment, subprime mortgages

How the Heir of the White Nationalist Movement Learned to Let Go of Hatred

Congress Can’t Create an Independent and Unaccountable New Branch of Government

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““The countries Trump meant are not inferior to enlightened Western democracies because of the color of their populace, but because of the corruption and oppression of their kleptocratic governments that keep the proles in poverty, ignorance, and fear; their religions that teach violence or passive resignation; and their cultures that oppress women, devalue learning, promote superstition, and don’t inculcate the upwardly mobile virtues, because few can move up.””
     — Myron Magnet, Cut the C-Rap

Tags: Myron Magnet ∙ Donald Trump ∙ Western democracies ∙ corruption ∙ oppression ∙ kleptocratic governments ∙ proles ∙ poverty ∙ ignorance ∙ fear ∙ violence ∙ passive ∙ oppress women

““The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.””
     — Confucius

Tags: Confucius ∙ virtuous ∙ anxieties ∙ wise ∙ perplexities ∙ bold ∙ fear

““We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.””
     — John F. Kennedy

Tags: John F. Kennedy ∙ open market ∙ American people ∙ fear ∙ unpleasant facts ∙ foreign ideas ∙ falsehood ∙ truth ∙ competitive values ∙ alien philosophies

Those aren't union members on the picket line

Tags: Winston Churchill ∙ dictator ∙ pedestals ∙ forbidden ∙ bayonets ∙ soldiers ∙ truncheons ∙ police ∙ fear ∙ thoughts

Older headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: bad cops ∙ police union ∙ racism ∙ Ásatrú ∙ heathen ∙ FBI ∙ encryption ∙ cellphone surveillance device ∙ Blackberry ∙ Calgary ∙ JFK asassination ∙ immigration ∙ invasion ∙ fear ∙ DHS ∙ police state ∙ fearmongering ∙ rehab ∙ chicken plants ∙ Harvey Weinstein ∙ hysteria ∙ climate skeptic ∙ progressive ∙ conservative ∙ militant ∙ First Amendment ∙ Woodrow Wilson ∙ counter-culture ∙ establishment ∙ cops ∙ car theft ∙ criminal activity ∙ food truck ∙ hurricane ∙ permit

“You're Americans First"

Tags: guest content ∙ fear ∙ I want you ∙ American ∙ picture ∙ Uncle Sam