i genuinely think widening the gulf between actual serious believers and normal people would help
you say the "largely religious" working class, but it's like 60% and falling, and having been in moderate churches, those people could all take or leave the organized part. wouldn't miss the org if there was literally any community thing to replace the habit.
building the mutual aid we want to do anyway and doing community stuff that churches (don't) do (nearly as much of as they milk for the reputation) and without holding somebody's sandwich hostage until they listen to us yak about jesus and sin gets you all the benefit of trying to appropriate religion without any of the idealism, falsehoods, or magical thinking.
but... we need to actually do all that mutual aid stuff and in america that's kinda hit or miss.
i genuinely think widening the gulf between actual serious believers and normal people would help
you say the "largely religious" working class, but it's like 60% and falling, and having been in moderate churches, those people could all take or leave the organized part. wouldn't miss the org if there was literally any community thing to replace the habit.
building the mutual aid we want to do anyway and doing community stuff that churches (don't) do (nearly as much of as they milk for the reputation) and without holding somebody's sandwich hostage until they listen to us yak about jesus and sin gets you all the benefit of trying to appropriate religion without any of the idealism, falsehoods, or magical thinking.
but... we need to actually do all that mutual aid stuff and in america that's kinda hit or miss.