I've said it before, these sorts of kids just want live in the Warhammer 40k universe and figure some sort of trad Christianity is the closest
Satire doesn't work on people with no art of their own. They will support outright lampooning of themselves and their ideology as long as it is popular.
Lol, I imagine its a bunch of dudes who build their identities around eating meat realizing orthodox Christians do vegan fasts and noping out
Islamophobe chuds who idolizes orthodoxy because "based Russia" until they realize Russia is like the Islamic world's biggest ally.
There are so many people on Reddit who I swear converted because of CK2 or something.
I was raised Catholic and I still feel spiritually empty all that time
either capitalism is incompatible with spirituality or all of religion is complete bullshit
either way this kinda stuff is just symptomatic of a deeply alienated society, just how fucking isolated do you have to be to WANT to go to church, it's fucking boring
A delicate old lady takes her usual spot in her pew, coke bottle glasses perched on her nose. She pulls out her Bible, dog-eared from decades of use but well-loved, settling into a predictable but comforting routine.
She feels a tap on her shoulder. In the pew behind her, a :le-pol-face: leans toward her. "You wanna hear about this time I owned a cuck NPC soyboy?" he asks between heavy, nasal breaths.
The most capitalist-y form of Christianity is all the prosperity gospel churches, or anything where you have a "personal relationship" with a godlike entity.
Absolutist and complicated hierarchy is a feudal thing. The big draw of capitalism against that, and of Protestantism against Catholicism, is that anybody can be the master of their own fortunes/faith.... As long as they're willing to throw others under the bus to do it.
Protestantism was fundamental to dissolving the social solvent of the Catholic Church enough to allow a new system to replace feudalism.
Catholicism is probably the most Feudalisty version...though the Orthodox have a strong showing there.
If he hasn't read the Bible at all, he's basically there already
The Bible for Christians is like Capital for leftists no one has read it but everyone vaguely feels that they should
Well what Christianity is definitely not about is that also I feel sorry for my catholic grandma if these people start going to church
I've considered converting to some religion just because it'd be cool to have rituals you can do when things go to shit or when you're anxious
I'm looking for something with a little more crystals and fancy chalk circles, you got anything like that?
I can't quite put the finger on it why, but his magick seems kind of 'hollow'.
I think on its own, yes, because he really didn't understand any of the religions he was pulling from half as well as he thought he did (though he was a competent practitioner by all accounts). In fact, he might have understood Christianity and Western paganism the least, and since he pulls the basic forms of ritual from those...
But I know a lot of people who like the structure, but modify to taste. A lot like a bit of Discordianism or Celtic ritual.
I guess an aspect may be that mysticism and occultism normally have a strong relational element. And this is a bit in conflict with his: "pick things, put them in a toolbox from where to build your practice" approach.
(not that thus build practices can't ever be or become worthwhile)
People always talk about the goat sacrifices, but ancient Greeks would also sacrifice grain and alcohol and stuff, so there's no raisin you couldn't be a vegan pagan.
Greeks did that because it was a feast. You would give some to the gods, sometimes just a smell, then you'd get a bunch of people over to mire your wealth and chill.
It's really fucking metal when someone's about to die and they pray. Like a soldier in the trenches or someone who replies to "China bad" knowing they're about to get ratio'd
Though I am often a proponent of discontinuing the practice of putting people in such situations.
someone’s about to die and they pray. Like a soldier in the trenches or someone who replies to “China bad” knowing they’re about to get ratio’d
one of these things is not like the others
This is even more cringeworthy than being a hardcore reddit atheist.
I don't have any family members who have any experience at all with this religion whom I could ask, but other mentally ill teenagers on my favorite metadata farm told me it's the most "trad" thing to do
Yea i dont think reactionaries would refer to themselves as reactionaries
:frothingfash: I'm a free and independent thinker, not like those NPC liberals and commies!
Anyway, how can I join the church fellow traditional reactionaries, I hear it's what we do?
