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  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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)