I wouldn’t lump all the people of a religion into the same boat if that religion didn’t have a death grip on the levers of power due to its congregants willingness to spill blood for those ends over the past two millennia.
As an institution, Christianity has relied on the passive support as well as the active participation of the majority of its congregants to dominate Western civilization through violence. Their current position of power is built on countless mass graves, slavery, genocide, and every form of bigotry imaginable being upheld and promoted by its followers for centuries. It’s only in the last few decades that there has been any kind of push for change, and it’s been less than incremental. We can’t even elect a woman as president of the US, much less a queer person or even an open atheist. This is because the majority of religious people will not accept it.
You may be a good person, but you are the anomaly in the grand scheme of your religion. You are the outlier. A violent biker gang doesn’t cease to be a violent biker gang just because a few of its members hand out stuffed animals to kids once a year. That’s called PR, and I’m not falling for it.
Reform your institution top-down. Kick out the power hungry. Kick out the depraved leaders who fuck little kids and cover it up. Kick out the grotesquely wealthy who prey on the poor to buy a new jet. Make them the outliers. Until you do that, your association with them is a conscious choice, and a choice of conscience.
I don’t doubt it. My comment was more aimed at the general idea that religious people shouldn’t be lumped together, more than at you specifically. Interestingly, as I scrolled past this post, I came upon this one. Here’s the linked article.
‘God has an order’: Head of Trump’s faith office says women must ‘submit’ to men
Televangelist Paula White, leader of the White House Faith Office, argued that women must “submit” to men.
During a Wednesday interview on Real America’s Voice, host Steve Gruber spoke to White about the state of faith in America during President Donald Trump’s second term in office.
“God is moving mightily, and what’s so exciting to me?” White explained. “It’s especially among young people and men. Men are the fastest returning to church.”
Gruber agreed that “real men” were needed to take leadership roles.
“Absolutely,” White continued. “They are becoming the bedrock, which is how God designed… Because God has an order.”
It’s really difficult not to lump all Christians together when someone like Paula White has so much influence on one of the most powerful governments on earth, and there is no push-back from the Christian community as a whole. She preaches blatant bigotry from the seat of government, and Christian leaders and congregations are silent. It’s hard to disentangle the good from the bad when everyone is quiet.
Every movement against hate has relied upon allies. Women’s suffrage needed men, Civil Rights needed white folks, LGBTQ+ rights needs straight folks, and so on. We need Christians like yourself to be loud as fuck about this. I don’t want to lump you in with them. I want you to be the standard by which they are judged, not the other way around.
I despise Trump and his administration with every fibre of my being.
I think a lot of “Christians” in America deserve those quotation marks because they use the religion to feel good about themselves and feel superior to others, instead of using the preachings of God to help people in need.
At the end of the days that’s what religion is all about to me. Helping those in need, whoever they may be to the best of my ability.
I hope the people of America are able to turn away from the path of bastardising the word of God to suit their political agenda.
I wouldn’t lump all the people of a religion into the same boat if that religion didn’t have a death grip on the levers of power due to its congregants willingness to spill blood for those ends over the past two millennia.
As an institution, Christianity has relied on the passive support as well as the active participation of the majority of its congregants to dominate Western civilization through violence. Their current position of power is built on countless mass graves, slavery, genocide, and every form of bigotry imaginable being upheld and promoted by its followers for centuries. It’s only in the last few decades that there has been any kind of push for change, and it’s been less than incremental. We can’t even elect a woman as president of the US, much less a queer person or even an open atheist. This is because the majority of religious people will not accept it.
You may be a good person, but you are the anomaly in the grand scheme of your religion. You are the outlier. A violent biker gang doesn’t cease to be a violent biker gang just because a few of its members hand out stuffed animals to kids once a year. That’s called PR, and I’m not falling for it.
Reform your institution top-down. Kick out the power hungry. Kick out the depraved leaders who fuck little kids and cover it up. Kick out the grotesquely wealthy who prey on the poor to buy a new jet. Make them the outliers. Until you do that, your association with them is a conscious choice, and a choice of conscience.
I agree with a lot of what you say.
I don’t doubt it. My comment was more aimed at the general idea that religious people shouldn’t be lumped together, more than at you specifically. Interestingly, as I scrolled past this post, I came upon this one. Here’s the linked article.
It’s really difficult not to lump all Christians together when someone like Paula White has so much influence on one of the most powerful governments on earth, and there is no push-back from the Christian community as a whole. She preaches blatant bigotry from the seat of government, and Christian leaders and congregations are silent. It’s hard to disentangle the good from the bad when everyone is quiet.
Every movement against hate has relied upon allies. Women’s suffrage needed men, Civil Rights needed white folks, LGBTQ+ rights needs straight folks, and so on. We need Christians like yourself to be loud as fuck about this. I don’t want to lump you in with them. I want you to be the standard by which they are judged, not the other way around.
I completely understand all your frustrations.
I despise Trump and his administration with every fibre of my being.
I think a lot of “Christians” in America deserve those quotation marks because they use the religion to feel good about themselves and feel superior to others, instead of using the preachings of God to help people in need.
At the end of the days that’s what religion is all about to me. Helping those in need, whoever they may be to the best of my ability.
I hope the people of America are able to turn away from the path of bastardising the word of God to suit their political agenda.
Religion has no place in government.