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Anon questions the KKK (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quick answer yes.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Longer answer... yeeeeeeessssss

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 20 hours ago

I mean 1 step above them is the classic tale of taking how your God was murdered and basically worshiping that symbol without the fire ...

[–] 69420@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

...a lowercase 't'

...t...t...time to leave!

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Quite frankly, Christianity can be used as a motivator for left wing philosophies helping the poor. If you actually read what Jesus' said, it's pretty good and damning for many self proclaimed american "christians"

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Heard of Christian Marxism?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago

Marx generally opposed religion so it sounds like an oxymoron

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sort of, but you need to remember that his teachings were an individual philosophy and he didn't want anything to do with government (render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, render unto God that which is God's).

Jesus taught that you should give all you have to the poor and follow God. Failing that, you should be generous in helping the poor. So I think he would advocate for charities, not taxation, since charitable giving is a choice and he wants people to choose to do the right thing. He would also criticize the very wealthy because they obviously have more than enough to share with the poor.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Good point, especially with 2 Corinthians 9:7

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

Thanks.

IMO, just paying your taxes doesn't make you a good person, giving what's left does. Ebenezer Scrooge's big transformation wasn't adopting progressive policies or anything, but giving abundantly.

Christianity doesn't say anything about politics, it's an individual thing.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

as time goes on I'm beginning to realize that religion is a tool of politics

Yeah that's always been the point of religion. They needed some way to control people in the 1400s, so they told them that if they didn't do what they were told, and incidentally pay the church a lot of money, then the big man in the sky would be unhappy. That was about the level of sophistication that a con required back then.

Even as recently as 200 years ago pastors didn't really believe in god, it was just a convenient job to do if you were relatively well off but still needed employment, and didn't want to do any laboring. That's why a lot of them ended up being scientists, they were rich and bored.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Christianity predates the 1400s

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

Yup. Ideology is religion and religion is ideology. We tend to want to be a part of something bigger, but the people in charge of those bigger things can use it to justify hurting people "for the greater good".

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

You can't get rid of superstitions nor politics. The most important thing that will help is education. A more educated populace is less gullible, but you can't fix stupid. Stupid will always exist.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

It's a ghost costume!

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Obligatory ACAB

[–] nick@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago

Obviously

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

no they surely just hate the lowercase t

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