I was abused by my christian parents.
I would like to live long enough to see humanity mature out of superstition and free the world from human greed.
But we can’t ignore them, either. That would be cherry-picking, which is a necessary aspect of “believing” the bible because it contradicts itself.
God never once condemns slavery, even when he’s incarnated as Jesus. The new testament has a handful of pretty lines that fall apart when you remember the abusive foundation of “obey me or die.”
It’s not always because they believe the bible, but it is often because they believe the bible. It describes a rapey abuser who can and will torture you to death if you don’t blindly obey him, and they call that “love”. They do completely backwards, wrong, harmful things while genuinely believing they are in the right.
You know that vague “mandate” they keep talking about? Spoilers, it’s from god. That divine being which we have no actual evidence for, no reason to believe its existence, no way of contacting it to verify what it wants. It gives them a blank check to do whatever they want regardless of how many people they hurt.
I’ve tried navigating my local government’s confusing labyrinth of different and semi-functional websites. It seems my particular county election office information is hidden behind a Facebook link. I am unwilling to sacrifice more of my data to them, I deleted my account years ago and will not be remaking it.
If I can find out where an office is and when they accept early voting, I’ll do that. I may just have to get in line on the 3rd at my polling place. I struggle just to get myself to the grocery store some days, but I am determined to vote! It will probably be best if I go early in the day.