Like it's mainly just an excuse for parents to not expose their kids to political stuff they don't like?

    • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I have a lot of chill af christian friends, so I think leftist Christianity is awesome.

      With that said, pretty much all the fundamentalists and other bigots should either be re-educated if they're kids or shot if they're adults. To phrase it in a way that would offend them: The fundamentalist pharisees taking the lord's name in vain to justify their hatred and ignorance deserve complete eradication.

      If you can legally drink alcohol in America and you're still a bigot, you don't deserve to live. If someone figures it out after that age, then cool, they're not in the "cheaper to fix with a bullet" category.

      Fuck, I'm activated and angry right now. I haven't thought about this home schooling shit in years.

      • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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        3 years ago

        I have a lot of chill af christian friends

        I've meet 3 and all of them kinda lowkey admit they think most of it is BS and just enjoy the community.

        Not trying to deny your experiences but I can't help but shake a heavy skepticism of the idea that there's a "woke" version of Christianity.

        • Mother [any]
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          3 years ago

          Jesus is a commie :jesus-cleanse:

          • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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            3 years ago

            Jesus was the leader of a Millenarianist cult that said some vaguely communist (really more agrarian communalist) things and then had his teachings used to make a giant ass theocratic state. There’s wisdom in his teachings like most historical figures but we really shouldn’t oversell his “commie-ness”

            • The_Champsky [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Right, like Jesus cannot be a communist because he was a religious leader. Under communism, Marx said that religion should be abolished.

              • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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                3 years ago

                That wasn't really my point. More just assigning a modernist political ideology to a guy who existed in the Roman Empire, in a period before even Feudalism developed, is a bit of a fools errant. If you enjoy the Christian community and want to read a generally progressive message from Jesus' teaches great, he wasn't really a "communist" though.

              • spectre [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                You can disagree with Marx on that still very much be a Marxist/communist.

                Of course organized religion is often a breeding ground for reactionary organization or activity, but you can't suppress it too aggressively (if at all) because it will foment reactionary zeal. Sort of like stamping out drug use, you don't want to just sic authority on them and force them to stop. Once it starts happening on the fringes of society you end up with an even bigger problem. I don't know enough about Russian/Slavic religious culture to have my own opinion on the matter, but I do hear this criticism toward the USSR and their policy toward religion being flawed at best.