- Joined
- Jan 15, 2018
"In the grim darkness of the superior future, there are only THINKERS and BELIEVERS."Bob thinks that Republicans and Democrats are an eternal concept that everybody around the world will completely understand, with Republicans being eternally right wing and Democrats being eternally left wing. One is Believers, the other is Thinkers
and this all is an incredibly US-centric concept because it's US-specific and no other country uses these designations in the same way the US does. It would be like calling every far left wing-nut party around the world "NDP" (which I sometimes do as a joke but holy shit). Never mind the fact that the "Progressives" of Yesteryear were also in fact Believers
(Tommy Douglas, NDP Leader and grandpa to actor Kiefer Sutherland because his kid Shirley married Donald Sutherland, was a Baptist minister, but also believed in eugenics, although reportedly he changed his mind about eugenics later in life). But then of course, Bob thinks the right wing and the Believer
class is made up entirely and exclusively of those bad guys that lost WW II.
Yeah, that's pretty much the case. They at least acknowledged Christianity and in TOS for the most part they didn't really attack it. I think Uhura was also supposed to be actually Christian, or at least heavily implied to be, in Bread and Circuses, when she clued in they weren't worshiping the sun, but the Son of God. I guess nobody on the Enterprise expected Christianity to have an exact parallel on another planet.
Blobhammer 40K (the 40K being how many McNuggies the Bob Emperor consumes daily)