Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Someone noticed that Christianity and right-wing doctrine aren’t nearly as compatible as the right-wing wants them to think …
There’s an episode of Behind the Bastards called “How the Rich Ate Christianity” about how certain people essentially constructed the religious right. In the early 20th century, the majority of pastors were socialists.
Religion is always conservative, that’s why Russian Communists destroyed churches and killed clerics.
Religion is always socially conservative. Fiscal conservatism doesn’t tend to jive with the teachings of most religions.
The fact that they tend to vote conservative anyway may show where their priorities lie, but I wasn’t lying when I said that most pastors were socialists in the early 20th century - it should be a natural consequence of believing in the teachings of Jesus.
Hmm… Tell that to my socialist priest of a grandfather.
Socialism is a direct consequence of Christianity. It’s the ultimate material incarnation of it.
Because of Christianity, we had the Renaissance, because of the Renaissance, we had capitalism. Because of capitalism we have socialism.
And many religions are extremely progressive and egalitarian. Many Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and even Muslim sects are. Not to mention Sikhs and Jains etc.
The issue is mostly the hierarchical, patriarchal and authoritarian sects won out and dominated the rest, extinguishing most that were real threats to their domination.
In my mind, this is all religion by the way. Buddhism or capitalism. Trans-humanism or nihilism. It’s all religion. We just have a very limited and antagonistic view of religions nowadays.
To the Classical Greeks “religion” was just trying to understand the world and how to live in it for example. That’s how most of us saw religion for a long time. Until the Catholic Church basically.
Now the Catholic Church is evil as fuck… mostly. As an institution.
Historically, sure. We have science now so mythology is just an anchor around our neck. We can dispense with the fairytales since they have become cancerous and metasticized.
Religion and mythology have nothing to do with one another.
One of the oldest religions in the world, Advaita Vedanta, has basically no mythology. And I’d say it says a lot of similar things to modern science.
If you think ancient peoples believed the things they wrote in the way you understand them literally, then you really are missing the point.
We’ve been hammering on the same thing over and over. We’ve found the answer many times.
Science perhaps will be the gateway for this truth for a massive number of people. Much more than ever before.
But still, we’ve found the answer many many times already.
What’s your definition of religion then? I think it probably maps to my definition of ‘culture’.
Religions have always been about trying to understand the world and how we should act in it as human beings. Those are the only and main things that connect all different “religions” in time and space.
They keep inching closer and closer to mass genocide and it’s really disgusting and disheartening.
Conservatives: “… nah”