Justice Thomas is a C.H.U.D.!

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@Kellii

Although it doesn’t preclude them from taking bribes I believe a great deal of the motivations of Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett is that they are religious zealots. They actually believe that shit and want to force their beliefs onto others because they are super duper sure that’s what god wants.

I’m also reminded here of Susan B. Anthony’s words:

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.”

Indeed, I found some comments elsewhere about the overturning of Roe vs Wade, and these comments are chillingly apposite:

The goal of the forced gestation fundies is to punish “whores” for having non-Jesus-approved sex, so they’ll do whatever punishes them the most that they feel they can get away with. They are not bothered one iota by people dying, just like they aren’t by COVID, because it’s Gawd’s Will and probably you deserved it.

Unless said “whores” are their girlfriend/mistress/daughter, in which case a discreet trip to a helpful medic is totally fine - Gawd allows it if it’s for them.

Quite simply, the creepy mindset of the typical fundageliKKKal (who is almost always in addition a hard-right “conservative”) can be summed up as “My magic man chose me as one of the ‘anointed’, to smite our enemies”. For these people, who tend in addition to have a disturbing taste for the more sadistic parts of fascism, and a not so secret yearning to be in charge of a torture dungeon, their attachment isn’t to the Jesus that issued scathing critique of the excesses of the rich^[1], but to the Bronze Age warlord in the sky of Lebensraum and sex trafficking.

If you want to see where this can lead, then one book you can track down is Perfect Victim, covering the case of Cameron Hooker, who kidnapped a woman and made her his sex slave for the best part of a decade, before law enforcement finally caught up with him. This individual was particularly fond of breaking out his Bible and heading straight to the verses about slavery, in order to “justify” his creepiness.

You can also factor in to the equation, the number of “pastors” that have been featured in the news, after being arrested and charged with some interesting offences. I have a list of these individuals (growing pretty much on a daily basis as well), which includes a disturbing number thereof who, after playing “Hide the Sausage” with 12 year old girls, accumulated predictable charge sheets before appearing in the dock. Three recent additions to that list were subject to the attention of law enforcement after fun activities involving farm animals, but they were very definitely outliers among the usual crowd of Josh Duggars.

^[1]Yes, we’re dealing with mythological assertions here once more, whose provenance is always to be questioned, but at least the assertions in question here are ones that are more consonant with developed ethical thought.