Weird Christian sectarianism on the left
Weird Christian sectarianism on the left
We've all seen it, and it has become more and more prevalent in recent years. I get the desire to dunk on WASPs, and that's all in good fun as far as I'm concerned, but I'm getting really tired of reading these weird theological arguments from leftists who think that the problem is the ideological framework of Calvinism or whatever. No. The prots have institutional influence where you live, and that's all there is to it. In the (many) countries where the Catholic church has institutional influence, they're the bastards.
They're the bastards where I live, but I'm not going to start blaming it on the dogma of transubstantiation or whatever, because that would be bad analysis.
Abrahamic Religions taking a massive loss in this thread. Good. They are all kinda dookie
Hum. Im starting to think that it may be organized religion that is the problem !
I dislike both flavors.
I'm not going to start blaming it on the dogma of transubstantiation or whatever, because that would be bad analysis.
Amusing that you call this out (correctly, imo) and get rewarded with a thread full of assholes tripping over themselves to say "DAE Christianity/religion bad?!" instead of any meaningful thought regarding this
I am allowed to say Christianity is bad, but i would correctly be labeled a racist to say that islam or judaism is bad
I think it's fine to say Christianity is bad, I just think doing so in a fashion that is that dismissive in a thread about "weird christian sectarianism on the left" that talks about bad analysis is maybe not the place to do it if you aren't going to give any reasoning. That said, I didn't intentionally call you out and I apologize for that.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm an asshole, but I wasn't in my comment about Christianity being objectively bad. That's not a spicy take. It's like saying anthropogenic climate change is happening.
This was not great phrasing on my part. Arising partly a result of spending a fair bit of time with someone who used "asshole" to mean "person selected at random" but partly because I do think that coming in evidencing the behavior the post is about with a completely dismissive take with no reasoning given is rude. In essence OP is saying they think this behavior is problematic and it is being used as an invitation to display it.
i think it's somewhat inherited from anglo-german imperialists who made such claims to exceptionalize themselves as the good capitalists and imperialists, whereas the catholics (particularly spain, italy) had a backwardsness and ineptitude in their imperializing and capitalizing.
Oh there's loads of stuff tied up with it: the history of anticatholicism in England, how that relates to Ireland; then you've got the North/South American axis too. And this stuff matters, but theology is not the driving force of history, is it
ITT: "meet people where they're at, unless where they're at is a church. I am The Materialist"
EDIT: snarky repliers beware, I will check your comment history for how many times you've said "in sha'Allah"
Inshallah is funny because it offends chuds because oooooh scary arab lanuage oooohhh
Yep, exactly. We use it here like we use cracker. Both are specifically intended to offend white people.
Where are these leftist theologians? Maybe its cause of the situation in my country but I've very never met any religious leftists. The few people my age who are willing to admit they're religious arn't really the kind who would be examining the theological elements of their religion either. Do people in other countries that maybe werent so incredibly fucked by sectarianism and The Church(TM) find religious leftists a common thing?
i think people who were raised christian will just uncritically accept the prejudices that instilled, even after they leave the church. i have friends who were raised protestant and are now firmly anti-theist who will still refer to "christians and catholics" and genuinely don't seem to know or fully believe that catholics are also christian.