I am a little surprised at how radicalized some of the Palestine / Hamas bros are

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many on the left reject organized religion only to end up deifying their political ideas.

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That's what I've been saying for years. The Left has abandoned religion, only to ultimately still be religious in the practition of secular progressive wokeism.

This was absolutely proven to me when my liberal cousins on social media, after the election results came in, were all over socials absolutely torching their own conservative family members for getting Trump elected. I literally read the comment, verbatim, "It is important at this time, that we listen to the words of Jesus Christ when he said 'Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do'. We must now try to forgive those close to us for getting this tyrant elected. It's not their fault that they were deceived by Satan."

frickers who haven't stepped foot inside a church for 30 years were suddenly virtue signaling religiously chastising the devout Christians in the family just because of who they voted for.

And I'll not lie, their behavior has turned me against them. I'm not some Right-wing nut because, trust me, I understand that the Establishment Uniparty is wholly corrupt and "both sides" are just two sides of the same trick coin. But I'm hard lined against their extremist ideology to the point that I don't want to interact with them at all any more, in any way at all.

Being in my mid-40s now, it is increasingly more evident to me every passing day that my time on this earth is over half spent. I no longer want to spend any more of my time voluntarily subjecting myself to the toxicity of political zealots. I just don't have the desire to put the energy into it any more.