Thread by @PnictogenHorses

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger "legalism" has absolutely nothing to do with God, Mr. @dalepartridge; we still inhabit a society that (on paper anyway) is maintained by a strictly irreligious *civil government*, one devoted to enforcement of no particular religion's notions of right and wrong.

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger now we know that in reality, Western civil governments have been thoroughly corrupted by hypocritical and deceitful Christian rogues, pushing notions of Christian theocracy--but Christian theocratic rule is NOT the official form of social organization in the West. not yet.

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger in other words, Mr. @dalepartridge, whether you like it or not, The Law is a secular thing, a human thing that exists entirely apart from your bloodthirsty #Christian God.

God is supposed to exist *apart* from mere human laws--the instruments of flawed, mortal humanity.

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger the United States of America is itself flawed and mortal; in fact, Mr. @dalepartridge, it's rotting and falling to pieces all round us, and your sort of corrupted and hyperpolitical #Christianity is largely to blame for that. you yourself, Partridge, are a fruit of decay.

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger you're like a mushroom appearing on the trunk of a tree that's been thoroughly invaded by white rot, Mr. @dalepartridge.

but let's get back to this issue of how you're terrified of public schooling, Partridge--it's one of the many symptoms of your spiritual enfeeblement.

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger public schools are creations of civil government; they are not *supposed* to be shackled to the Christian God, or indeed to *any* deity. they're meant as neutral ground where students of ANY religion--even your silly one, Mr. @dalepartridge--can learn basic human things.

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger a student at a public school is free to believe in any god they like; if they feel that their faith is somehow challenged or threatened by the information taught at a secular school, Mr. @dalepartridge, then that's entirely the *student's* problem, not civil government's.

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger hence I ask you Mr. @dalepartridge, why you're so frightened of what goes on at public schools that you need to shout warnings against it. is your #faith--is the faith of other #Christians like you--really so feeble and pathetic that it can't withstand public schooling?

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger what's the use of a religious faith that can't withstand contact with an irreligious world? if #Christianity shrivels into nothing simply because a Christian is informed about the existence of Islam, or gay people, or anything else...

...isn't it completely useless?

~Mona

@dalepartridge @dhanabarger well, Mr. @dalepartridge? do you have an answer for me? can you tell me why #Christian #faith is so easily overthrown that it can only survive in a cultural bubble, protected from contact with the outside world?

(I expect no answer. you're a coward, Partridge.)

~Mona Drafter

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