For your edification Behind The Bastards did a two parter on how Capitalism Ate Christianity, which I’m pretty sure what happens with any faith that stays in power for too long. (On Youtube: Chapter One, Chapter Two )
This is to say it was an actual conspiracy of plutocrats to turn Christianity into the pro-America, anti-communist hyperviolent mess that Evangelical Christian nationalism is today, since the Great Depression and the New Deal pissed off the industrialists.
a means of control and of manufacturing supportive fervor. a means of generating others that you no longer have to view as human beings, and last but not least, a means of justifying vileness and violence against those you detest.
used to be kings and popes that the fervor was directed at.
This is the Christian Nation they want to build.
Murder the disadvantaged, without consequence.
Just like Jesus would have done! /s
For your edification Behind The Bastards did a two parter on how Capitalism Ate Christianity, which I’m pretty sure what happens with any faith that stays in power for too long. (On Youtube: Chapter One, Chapter Two )
This is to say it was an actual conspiracy of plutocrats to turn Christianity into the pro-America, anti-communist hyperviolent mess that Evangelical Christian nationalism is today, since the Great Depression and the New Deal pissed off the industrialists.
Religion is what its always been.
a means of control and of manufacturing supportive fervor. a means of generating others that you no longer have to view as human beings, and last but not least, a means of justifying vileness and violence against those you detest.
used to be kings and popes that the fervor was directed at.
Now its fascists and idiots (and fascist idiots)