THE ISSUE I RAISED LAST WEEK that asked if Kyrsten Sinema's betrayal of the stands she pretended to champion in her various political campaigns, her shifting from a play-leftie Green-independent Naderite to the best friend of big money corruption as she does nothing might not be explainable by her atheism* which, there being a lack of an ultimate moral authority and judge of our behavior, figures if you can rig things the right way you can get away with anything without paying consequences you pay for. That there seem to be people willing to call themselves Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc. who do the same thing does nothing to change the fact that it is her religious stand that comes with a denial of the very things that should prevent that bad behavior in those who pretend to believe in moral absolutes and consequences for bad behavior.
Clearly she doesn't care that she is setting herself up for this Senate seat for this term being the highest and last elective office she will likely get from the voters of Arizona, if she thinks Republicans are going to nominate an supposed bisexual, atheist non-Republican to be their champion, maybe she is. They nominated Trump and regularly nominate Lindsay Graham in South Carolina but my guess is her plans are to cash out when her term is up and make even more money.
She could, of course, prove all of the above to be wrong but the only way she could do that at this time would be to not be a roadblock t o the things she pretended she had favored to dupe her supporters into getting her elected. That's entirely on her, not me, not on her disappointed supporters and other voters who voted for her, not for her fans in other states who thought it would be groovy to have a bisexual atheist former Green in the Senate. I was more inclined to distrust her for the Green-Naderite connections than her atheism before getting a load of what she did this year, the first time her own party held power in any of the offices she has held - according to Joy Reid last night. I think she was always a self-serving operator, weighing what would get her what she wanted, if she wants to prove that wrong, this is the time and the Reconciliation bill is the one to do it with.
* I strongly suspect that her atheism is quite relevant for determining her motives and goals. She was honored, after their fashion, by one of the major atheism promotion rackets, the Center For Inquiry. Which, considering how the gal bats off all inquiries from her own constituents and the real media is rather a hoot, though in line with that brand of atheist-"skeptical" inquiry which is all about shutting down the study of things they hate because they perceive that they endanger their ideology and its pretended solid foundation in logic and science.
If she would whine about someone bringing her atheism up when what she's doing is no violation of any code of morality advocated by atheism and one which its critics have pointed out is a logical consequence of atheism, that's also ironic considering how atheists constantly bring up the religious identity of people acting badly. Atheists, of course, do so to discredit the religion that, for example, Christians behaving badly, they are violating by their actions that hurt the poor, the dispossessed, that favor the rich and privileged. They're hardly in a logically sound position to whine and complain when I point out that Kyrsten Sinema's duplicity, betrayal, self-serving, etc. are in violation of no moral absolute held as the truth by atheism. That other atheists might hold to moral absolute positions that are found nowhere as a necessary consequences of their atheism is the anomaly, the evidence that there is more to their atheism than atheism. Sinema's previous positions, if they were anything other than a means of gaining support and votes from people she intended to dupe were such anomalies if they were sincere. Whether or not anyone should believe they were is also entirely up to her.
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