in short? alienation from labor+concerns about the afterlife. Basically, people who didn't have to worry about the harvest coming through next season started to worry about long term things, so the purpose of religion switched more and more to afterlife focus over time. You can see this generally, with Greek mystery cults such as the Eleusinian mysteries, cult of Orpheus and Dionysius, the great gods at Samothrace, and the Korybantes cult down in Crete, as well as the cult of Isis and Serapis coming out of Egypt, the cult of Mithras from Persia, and various levantine revivals around the time of Jesus. No big cults came from further north in Europe, due to the fact that those places were full of simple farmers for the most part until Roman conquest. Worship of animals tends to die out really fast, it's very easily made to look silly, it can only stay sustained in hunter gatherer groups, sometimes nomads. Solar worship is also more open to fluctuation than you might think, the Greek sun god was mostly worshiped for prophecy, poetry, medicine, laws, and poems, and the Romans didn't have a major cult for the sun until they imported it from Greece(potentially a minor one but it's obscure), and the other Italic people's didn't have one(the Etruscans do, but he's connected with the whole of the sky). The sun does it's job day in day out a lot better than other parts of the world, so why bother propitiating it? Several solar cults kind of catch on in the late empire, but more among the wealthy than the common people. Wind gods get very rarely worshiped, there job is usually subsumed into a weather god's work, potentially sea god or others. Water gods tend to be a bit of a hold out, as are gods directly tied to land and farming, but push comes to shove they eventually get folded as eschatological concerns overwhelm them. As for why Christianity, unlike the others somehow throws all prior religions out even for those who still work the soil, that's because Christ is King. But in a more objective tack, it's the only one of this cults that wasn't henotheistic, allowing for other gods but centered on one, but strictly monotheistic. And if the old gods get thrown out but the functions they governed keep moving, then either Jesus is the true god or it doesn't really matter.

We may not have gotten a snowpiercer, but an ice piercer isn't too far off.

tbh there's a growing problem in leftist spaces where it isn't clear where straight cishet white men fit in to it. Yes it makes sense to have certain spaces more geared towards, and to an extent exclusive towards women, people of color, queer people, and any combination there of, but it's also necessary to have something for one of the most politically powerful groups in in society. In general actual leftists are better about being open to anyone, but liberals and liberals pretending to be anti-capitalist can get very suffering-olympics about it.

fascinating that the metric for egocentrism is not caring when someone else speaks about themselves.

tbf they had half an incumbent boost, they should have run Biden and then had him step down, or had him step down earlier so she could run a full campaign.

this is not a grammatical rule, elision is avoided in this case through the nasal, and were it not the case a front-attack on the the article would differentiate it from the preceeding word

Widening the hole in my pasta spoon as we speak

Oh how thoughtful! We need to save one for the silver legion, whenever they get back

Wow I'm glad I logged back on in time!

We can only dream of being this petty

No I have not, they think they'll lose votes then they do anyway.

Revisionist

Interesting theory, why do Republicans keep having gains politically? You're ignoring the fact that raving dogs seem to be the largest contigent of voting americans.

Man I forgot the joe Biden that was in the election, that was an entirely different world.

Nah, protracted war of the Judean people, you revisionist

There were no churches when Christ was around, do you mean the temple in Jerusalem? Anyway the difference between Jesus and Garfield is that Garfield is borrowing from cultural concepts of a cat in a comedic context, more likely than not fake. Jesus is part of the miracle worker, messiah, and religious reformer/restorer movements at that time. Although he could be an amalgam, it makes more sense for him to be at heart at least one guy that inspired all that followed.

Damn autocorrect, I meant move. But thank you.

It's best if you treat them like a game you can win, which coincidentally is the worst possible way to start relationships

Okay folks, I took a few months away from everything due to burnout. What's the hexbear movie for voting rn?

Edit: move

I like movies but that's too many in one night.