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Originally Posted by Grobie
Society as whole, regardless of religious views or lack thereof, has at some point agreed on a set of guidelines (for lack of a better term) in which we can peacefully coexist.
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And this would be the source of the today's cultural divide in the USA.
A group of dancers, prancers, jesters, announcers and politicians trying to control "society as a whole" or trying to define some new, non-Christian arbitrary "set of guidelines" that they want to
force on the rest of the society.
The meltdown we've seen during Trump years, the TDS, is likely because they had a perception of losing this control to enforce their "values" and "views," a control they really never had. The first amendment is there to protect everyone from these types of people, even if they don't realize they are trying to control the society.
We also see this attempt at control through a small group of people trying to redefine the language. In the online world, if a reputable source chooses to change the definition of a word, it seems to appear to lend the new definition some special authority. In reality, just because someone changed the definition in the free dictionary or thesaurus, it doesn't mean anything for the rest of us. The words such as "marriage" or "gender" come to mind - just because some online sources want to hijack those words, doesn't mean they have the capability.