Can we all admit that American Christianity is a capitalist bastardization of Christianity and not what Christianity was meant to be? Like yeah religion is the “Opium of the people” and all that but it was originally all about that After-School-Special “Sharing is caring” and “Don’t be greedy give to the needy” type shit. It’s a fact that Jesus existed, I don’t believe he was the son of food or anything, he was probably crazy but he was historically progressive. Like if you listen to the average Burgeroid who thinks that Trump is the second coming of Jesus and compare that person to some Catholic, Boomer, Sugar farmer in Cuba it is like night and day. This is why I hate when I see Reddit-Atheists here who bash Christianity as a whole when really the problem is Conservative-Christianity, state repression of religion failed in socialist states that tried it so pointing out fake Christianity is a better method.
4 posts and 1 image reply omitted.>>776403>then why them preachers be tryna get me to eat the 'body and blood of christ' every damn sunday? fr man like damn.That was probably the most embarrassing typo I ever made with autocorrect
>nah dawg, religion really do be "opium of the masses" aka a tool of political control. always was. it's why wars were fought in the name of god, and really, continue to be to this day. Again it conservative religion, people also use religion to advocate for non-violence
In 100 years the whole world will be atheism, even if the revolution doesn't happen. All trends point to increasing atheism and irreligion worldwide, even in deeply religious countries like Saudi Arabia and Brazil.
>>776407thats assuming we continue to progress, regression is always possible
>>776408So you were lying when you said you weren't an atheist, Socrates?
The problem is that then you fall into a no-true-Scotsman fallacy where you have to evaluate every Christian creed based on some “pure Christianity” that never existed as before the formation of the Catholic Church you had various Christian sects with differing and often conflicting interpretations of the Bible, like the conflict between Monophysites and miaphysites which, although trivial to us, were taken by pre-modern Christians so seriously that it is said that the early Arab conquest of the Levant was largely possible thanks to the monophysites siding against the imperial Easter Roman Church at Constantinople.
And let’s not forget how the oldest physical inscription of Jesus Christ is derived from a marcionite church, and marcionites are deemed by mainstream Christians WORLDWIDE to be heretics on the account of their negation of the trinity and Christ’s physical nature (in contradiction with the Nicene creed and the council of Trent that affirms Christ’s dual divine-mortal nature and the trinity as interpolated from certain biblical passages).
So while I don’t think it’s productive on talking about what does and doesn’t count as “true meaning of Christianity”, it would be worthwhile to talk about how the average reactionary DGAF about the Christian faith, and instead simply projecting their own reactionary politics into Christianity, which is why “faithful Christians” will focus on culture war BS and divorce and other social issues, but never talk about debt jubilees and other relatively progressive aspects of the Bible.