• TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    What a joke. Biden is now legally permitted to do anything he wants. If Project 2025 is such an existential threat, he should get on it, because he’s not wringing a pro-genocide ballot out of me with his crying about a theoretical apocalypse.

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Damn, you’re telling me christianity has been perverted by the state to serve its own ends? I’m shocked, somebody get emperor Constantine on the phone, I’d like to have a word with him.

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      I don’t understand how over a millennia of one entity controlling the vast majority of the christian religion could have been twisted from a mutual aid society in the Levant into this? I mean there’s no history of any bad things Christians did before this

      Also, fuck Paul. I grew up christian and still identify with much of Jesus teachings, but anyone who believes the bible is inerrant is a total dipshit

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        I don’t understand how over a millennia of one entity controlling the vast majority of the christian religion could have been twisted from a mutual aid society in the Levant into this?

        Hot Take: I’m a bit skeptical of how some people paint early Christianity as a super progressive thing that got perverted by the Catholic Church or whatever. I was raised in the faith, and yeah Jesus had a lot of cool things to say about helping the poor and the rich being corrupt, but I think describing him as a “socialist” for that is a stretch at best. In the actual context he was saying it, it really comes off more as basic Millennialism, you give to the poor not to try and build a better world without poverty but because you end to purify yourself of material corruption for the end times which are totally coming really soon guys, just right around the corner.

        This isn’t to say having a progressive interpretation of Jesus’ teachings isn’t valid, it’s no more or less valid than any interpretation of any religion, I just don’t agree it’s inherent to the original doctrine as some seem to feel it is.

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          I think that equating Jesus with mutual aid and/or socialism is just effective messaging in some places, that can be supported by certain Bible passages. Just effective agitprop in certain regions basically.

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          When I say “early christianity” I guess I basically mean the parts of Acts where everyone would join and sell all their possessions, and the “church” (still a small Jewish sect) was using the funds to help widows and other disadvantaged folks. At least, that is how it was described in Acts

          Jesus himself - not a socialist really. I mean, some of his parables are based in capitalism (Parable of the Talents, Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard). He definitely became political, even if he didn’t mean to. Ofc, I don’t really trust the gospels as a historical account.

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            Worth keeping in mind that the material conditions for socialism and capitalism didn’t exist. You could argue that Rome had some proto-capitalist stuff going on, I guess. But the communal nature of a lot of early christian and later christian heretic sects was an important part of developing the ideas that eventually resulted in communism.

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        believes the bible is inerrant is a total dipshit

        AFAIK that concept is literally only like 150 or 200 years old and, of course, originated in America. Every other denomination except US bible thumpers think it’s ridicuouls.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    And yet, for being so apocalyptic, I haven’t heard a single lib tell me what they were going to do if Biden loses anyway

    It’s not even a possibility in their minds even as they screech about Havana syndrome and senility > lies

    Like children, expecting Santa Claus to drop democracy down the freedom chimney

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Ah yes Sharia, so much less noble than the religion whose missionaries served for centuries as the pretext for many colonial occupations and foreign interventions… Culminating in the US’s alliance with radical political Islam…

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    What is up with the liberal insistence on comparing their own people to a scary other? Is it so they can appeal to other liberal’s social fascism? Or to appeal chuds so they magically stop supporting christofascism, because they hate muslims more than they hate LGBT people?

    It’s disgusting either way