The white people lynching black people are ALL christians. All of the KKK are christians, that’s a christian only organization. MAGA is christian. Yes, real christians. German nazis were christians. Italian nazis were catholic. It’s not new.
Stop supporting religion. All of it. Immediately. Religion is the cause of all of this hate, and always will be.
Fuck fictional angels and the people that lie to children about them.
you can be right about religion’s connection to right-wing politics and bigotry, but referring to someone as an angel because they do something wonderful doesn’t even imply you believe angels exist or that you are religious at all (let alone devout or dedicated to religion). This makes your reaction feel out of place given the context, both in how extreme it is, and in how it responds to a casual reference to someone being an angel as if they had just sworn loyalty to the Bible.
It’s a bit of a stretch to assume that just because someone calls a good person an “angel” that the person is religious.
Religion is the cause of all of this hate
Absolutely not. Religion is a pretext for the violence that people with power already want to commit. Religion is neither necessary nor sufficient for domination of others.
and always will be.
I’m not even remotely religious or even open to religion, but there are decent religious people out there. Frankly, some Christians are comrades, much more so than some atheists. Here’s an example:
Do you know about Cynefin? Would you disagree if I say that religion is a complex Cynefin system and therefore can’t be entirely predictable? Would you say Lutheranism and the Theology of Liberation are equally as problematic as the KKK and Nazis?
Would you say Lutheranism and the Theology of Liberation are equally as problematic as the KKK and Nazis?
Not as bad, but for example Sweden is and Prussia was lutheran, it’s also religion of majority of Germany so majority of nazis were also lutheran, Bismarck and his kulturkampf too. Liberation thology is also better than mainsteam catholicism but it’s still toothless class collaboration ideology that deradicalizes people, a kind of religious socialdemocracy.
There are some angels in this place
The white people lynching black people are ALL christians. All of the KKK are christians, that’s a christian only organization. MAGA is christian. Yes, real christians. German nazis were christians. Italian nazis were catholic. It’s not new.
Stop supporting religion. All of it. Immediately. Religion is the cause of all of this hate, and always will be.
Fuck fictional angels and the people that lie to children about them.
you can be right about religion’s connection to right-wing politics and bigotry, but referring to someone as an angel because they do something wonderful doesn’t even imply you believe angels exist or that you are religious at all (let alone devout or dedicated to religion). This makes your reaction feel out of place given the context, both in how extreme it is, and in how it responds to a casual reference to someone being an angel as if they had just sworn loyalty to the Bible.
It’s a bit of a stretch to assume that just because someone calls a good person an “angel” that the person is religious.
Absolutely not. Religion is a pretext for the violence that people with power already want to commit. Religion is neither necessary nor sufficient for domination of others.
I’m not even remotely religious or even open to religion, but there are decent religious people out there. Frankly, some Christians are comrades, much more so than some atheists. Here’s an example:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexandre-christoyannopoulos-an-introduction-to-christian-anarchism
And for a less radical example, see Liberation Theology.
Do you know about Cynefin? Would you disagree if I say that religion is a complex Cynefin system and therefore can’t be entirely predictable? Would you say Lutheranism and the Theology of Liberation are equally as problematic as the KKK and Nazis?
Not as bad, but for example Sweden is and Prussia was lutheran, it’s also religion of majority of Germany so majority of nazis were also lutheran, Bismarck and his kulturkampf too. Liberation thology is also better than mainsteam catholicism but it’s still toothless class collaboration ideology that deradicalizes people, a kind of religious socialdemocracy.