Yeah, standard church is like watching paint dry. Evangelical mega churches are unfortunately pretty entertaining , especially if you’re in a small town. It’s literally a weekly free rock concert that tells you to hate yourself and everyone around you.
Combine that with being some of the only places for community aid and you’ve got a deeply fucked up evil version of dual power.
I forget not everyone grew up with and escaped that. It’s a big part of why I’m an active leftist. I’ve had to live in the world the right wing wants for everyone and it’s fucking bleak.
For any Christians reading all this, I don’t even hate Christianity. Liberation theology and Christian socialists do a lot of good.
The church is an incredibly efficient social structure and community mechanism which is why predators and reactionaries co-opted it as a means of consolidating power.
Acquainted with a few liberation theology/socialist Christians. Ye, that's their logic basically. Essentially once large scale organized Christianity took off it became a tool coopted by reactionaries for power & wealth that ignored the original message. Personally can't speak to the accuracy of this since my knowledge of the history of Christianity is lacking but I suppose you can certainly argue that case, a lotta evangelicals certainly aren't paying attention to the "love thy neighbor, the rich are sinful, etc." shit.
Jeez guess it's good I found church boring
Yeah, standard church is like watching paint dry. Evangelical mega churches are unfortunately pretty entertaining , especially if you’re in a small town. It’s literally a weekly free rock concert that tells you to hate yourself and everyone around you.
Combine that with being some of the only places for community aid and you’ve got a deeply fucked up evil version of dual power.
I forget not everyone grew up with and escaped that. It’s a big part of why I’m an active leftist. I’ve had to live in the world the right wing wants for everyone and it’s fucking bleak.
For any Christians reading all this, I don’t even hate Christianity. Liberation theology and Christian socialists do a lot of good.
The church is an incredibly efficient social structure and community mechanism which is why predators and reactionaries co-opted it as a means of consolidating power.
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Acquainted with a few liberation theology/socialist Christians. Ye, that's their logic basically. Essentially once large scale organized Christianity took off it became a tool coopted by reactionaries for power & wealth that ignored the original message. Personally can't speak to the accuracy of this since my knowledge of the history of Christianity is lacking but I suppose you can certainly argue that case, a lotta evangelicals certainly aren't paying attention to the "love thy neighbor, the rich are sinful, etc." shit.
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