I'm going to knock out that white supremacy & abortion discourse thread for you today, but before I can get to that, we've got to talk about the 'religion' issue.

Some people are reacting to the Capitol and Christianity in the worst possible way - ethically and strategically.

Several people responded to Christian Identity / white supremacist theology thread with calls to eradicate religion.

Let's just get one thing out of the way:

1) that won't ever happen
2) you're assuming religion is the problem (spoiler; it's

Not only do non-religious ideologies prove equally lethal, but in many cases, religious observance - like regular attendance of mosques, for example - is inversely correlated with political violence.

Also: generalizations are always a very bad idea; they lack analytic depth.

I also had people read the Christian Identity thread, and then write to me to ask:

"I heard a politician open his/her remarks with the name of God / Jesus, and it worried me. Is he/she a Nazi?"

Okay, let me stop you RIGHT there.

The answer here is not “every Christian politician is a Christian identity Nazi, and every mention of ‘the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘God’ is the ‘Christian Taliban’” (or whatever Islamophobic term is in current use).

That ain't it.

For a couple of reasons.

These are the people paid to analyze situations for us.

Good God, how frustrating.

Call me with questions, Chris. Happy to fill you in on a decade or so of work on the matter.

“Zip-ties: what are they for?”

Twitter is infested with some of the absolute dumbest takes I have ever seen on the issue of white supremacy, insurgency, and political violence.

Please vet your sources.

People are falling for so much utterly ridiculous shit, my God.