So the FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation) came out with a video after the Super Bowl, talking about the “Jesus Gets Us” ads. Generally speaking, when they’re talking about the ads themselves, they’re fine, but unfortunately, they took the opportunity to attack conservatism.

That’s not religion, stupid. Figure it out.

So first, as usual, here’s the video in question. Feel free to watch it if you’d like.

Here’s the real problem that I have with a lot of these pro-atheism groups. It’s not just the FFRF, it’s the ACA and many others. They aren’t just anti-religion groups, as they claim they are, they’re fan clubs for far-left progressivism too.

Fuck that.

Now I could, and have, made the opposite point that a lot of Christian churches out there, groups that pay no taxes and are forbidden by law from discussing politics and supporting specific political causes and candidates, they are often just shills for a particular far-right, hyper-religious political ideology that they preach from the pulpit. Those groups shouldn’t be tax-free either.

It just seems like nobody knows how to be apolitical anymore and that pisses me off. It’s very, very hard, as I’ve said in the past, to find anyone worth supporting as a secular conservative. I want nothing to do with the religious but I want nothing to do with the far-left either. I can give a  grudging respect to a very narrow range of things that the FFRF do, but it’s hard to like most of the people involved with it because I think their political leanings suck donkey balls. They have chosen to publicly align themselves with an ideology that I virtually entirely disagree with vehemently.

I don’t know why people can’t just stick to a subject today. I certainly know how. When I’m working, I don’t run around and talk about atheism or stamp collecting or anything else not related to the work. I can focus. I can wait until I’m not working to bring up those things, but only within a specific context, where people might be interested.

Most people though, they wear their political and religious ideologies on their sleeves and just like a lot of Christians can’t hold a 3 minute conversation without bringing up Jesus 147 times, neither can the political left go any significant length of time without bringing up their alphabet soup beliefs or their grand conspiracy theories.

Here’s a video that you’re making about a specific topic. Stick to the topic. It can’t be that hard! Granted, I figure they’re trying to pander to their audience, who probably expects them to say a lot of that stuff because their audiences are ideologically deluded too. Most people that I run into these days, they can’t handle their heartfelt beliefs not being constantly on display, no matter how absurd that is.

It’s why, when I’m making videos, I stay on topic. I don’t go bringing up extraneous things that don’t fit in with the content of the video. That seems to be a dying skill these days. I think that’s terribly sad.

Therefore, the FFRF has to fall into the unfortunately growing category of groups that I respect the mission but hate the implementation of. I thought the whole point was to fight against religion and religious overreach. It wasn’t to push hard-core leftist ideologies. If that’s what you want to do, you can do it without my support. I’ve got better things to do.