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1. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Inner Party and the Outer Party are both parts of the same political party in the one-party state of Oceania/Airstrip One. The "Inner Party" is in turn an elite order within the broader "Outer Party". The reference you are making thus is entirely nonsensical to...

1. "A lesser degree." Bucko, if there are two political parties and they have different views, then by definition there is not one singular point of view that is enforced by violence on everyone. What you are describing is simply the defense of the liberal pluralist society against those forces...

Hmm, I don't believe that that's actually the nature of politics, otherwise all "democracies" would be one-party police states. That does not seem to be the case. Anyways, you are conflating your own reactionary Christianity with all Christianity. It is not oppressing Christians to suggest...

OK. Your views of pluralism necessarily demand antisemitism and Islamophobia and violence against many other religions if they were put into practice. I, foolishly, assumed that you had spent enough time thinking about your beliefs to understand that when you say "We must reestablish natural...

Why would that be the case? Can you offer an explanation for why that would be so?

You really did not read my manifesto at all if you that's what you took from it. I said that lesbianization, which I delineated clearly as distinct from an actual conversion to lesbianism, is a means to further a democratic society, not that a world of solely lesbians is necessary for...

You have said that it is necessary to exclude people and to have a more closed society on the basis of religion, because pluralism leads to "SJWs" oppressing people like you. You have not made any specific accommodations for Jewish people and Judaism. Conservative Christianity does not offer...

You have said that it is necessary to oppress members of non-Christian religions, which would include Jews. Perhaps you genuinely believe that if you quote Aquinas at enough length you might convince people to peaceably accept oppression, but if we are dealing with reality, increasing oppression...

I assure you, you didn't have to explain that you personally wish to displace antisemitic violence to ensure proper conformity onto some other person that your own hands might remain clean. Reactionaries are generally cowards.

In any case, if you want an understanding of my particular politics, I posted a thread in this very forum which you could peruse at your leisure.

I would not say that I personally am tolerant. I am willing to accept tolerance because in the end it is simpler and better than actually maintaining the level and form of intolerance that I think would be an ideal. What's odd, though, is that you foreclose any possibility that a conflict might...

I am not proposing a civic religion here, but yes, I would propose a civic religion that seeks ultimately to strangle conservative Christianity (as opposed to Christianity as a whole, and alongside other reactionary religious interpretations) because I am firmly convinced that it is a malevolent...

I am not stating my own particular beliefs here. I am attempting to communicate what the believers of traditional religions would have thought. And they would have looked at the pluralistic reality of the current United States and understood that the civic religion must necessarily be...

Since I was talking about how these religions emphasize actions, I don't know why you're talking about mere thoughts. In any case, given the wanton misogyny many conservative Christians express and their expressed desire for homosocial bonding, most practitioners of traditional religion would...

This isn't how traditional religions functioned. The issue was not whether you believed in the existence of Anubis, let alone having faith in him, but rather the actions that you had undertaken in life and how well they had conformed to the requirements of Ma'at. Thus, being a Christian in...