Cruz is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which has oversight jurisdiction over the FCC.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sounded like an organized crime boss threatening the ABC network’s broadcasting licenses over comments by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
The Texas Republican also emphasized how much he hates what Kimmel said about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk — and how much he likes and works closely with Carr.
Having high-ranking federal officials threaten a network in such a way, however, is “dangerous as hell” because it presents a slippery slope that could end with conservatives facing government censorship down the road, Cruz said.
Anyone who proudly declares that they believe fantastical things on no credible evidence AND have a Sky Daddy…
Has no place as a “leader” in civilized society.
And sure the fuck doesn’t get to claim being a person of “reason”
Go back to the disease-ridden Middle Ages whence you came
There are plenty of good and valid reasons to criticize Republicans.
Them claiming to have religious beliefs is not one of them.
Anyone with religious beliefs is a threat to society.
That wasn’t always the case.
But now we have an urgent requirement for people to distinguish fact from fiction. Faith is exactly the opposite of what human civilization requires
According to a recent poll only 28% of Americans are religiously unaffiliated:
https://prri.org/spotlight/2024-prri-census-of-american-religion/
So by your logic 72% of Americans are a threat to society.
It’s amazing anything is still standing when everyone is a threat.
The religious are a threat in direct proportion to how much they actually believe their ignorant and credulous horseshit, and which specific flavor of horseshit they credulously believe.
As has been pointed out, radical Jains are not much of a concern. Radical monotheists who believe in both an Afterlife and a Judgement Day – are a direct threat to civilization in much the same way that racists are.
Yes, specific beliefs are the problem. It’s almost like it’s not religion in general that’s the problem, but rather specific people using excuses for hateful bigotry.
If you want to say Republicans with their belief in a hateful bigoted God and forcing that on everyone else is a problem I’m right there with you. But let’s focus on the valid criticism of hatred and bigotry rather than some boogy man of “people having religious beliefs” which you just said is not necessarily a problem by itself, it depends on the person, their beliefs, and how much they push them on other people.
The root of the problem is faith ; in other words, belief without evidence
That is the root of the problem.
All of us need to understand beliefs as being on a scale that never gets all the way to 0% nor to 100%
All our beliefs have priors, based on the evidence so far, which then get updated as we take in new evidence. This is how scientists and modern philosophers are trained to think.
This is what needs to displace faith.
Again, 72% of Americans have faith in something.
Look to your left, look to your right, look one seat over to your right. You are telling each of those people they are wrong, stupid, damaging to society, and expecting them to listen to you.
51% of scientist have some sort of religious faith or belief:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/
Science and faith do not have to be in opposition to one another. They are completely different subjects and do not belong in the same conversations.
They both make propositions that could be true or false. They are not non-overlappping.
The whole idea of “personal truth” must become socially unacceptable.