Been thinking for a while whenever the subject of religion comes up that we need to take 2 separate approaches when taking on reactionaries using religion
Atheist comrades should continue as is but try extra hard to avoid friendly fire on religious comrades
Religious comrades meanwhile should be going fire and brimstone on these nazi monsters
I can see it both ways, on the one hand many of our enemies just wield religion as a weapon without actually believing in anything other than money and on the other they’re also blasphemous genocidal demons who belong in hell
Taking 2 different seemingly opposite paths to attack our enemies from both angles only to end up in the same place, is that not dialectical?
Rhetoric won’t convince many full-on fascists anymore but there are plenty of people that are generally ignorant of everything still, and many people that at least call themselves Christian in the west. I do believe hammering on the immoral and anti-Christian aspect of ICE raids, fascism, and capitalism in general can maybe do some good in those circles. My grandma is a church-going Christian from a military family generally conservative but talks about how Jesus would say basically all of the conservative politicians and rich people today are going to hell.
I just harp on how most modern Christians pretend to worship God but instead worship at the foot of Mammon. And I am a pretty strident atheist, but I meet people where they are at.
Been thinking for a while whenever the subject of religion comes up that we need to take 2 separate approaches when taking on reactionaries using religion
Atheist comrades should continue as is but try extra hard to avoid friendly fire on religious comrades
Religious comrades meanwhile should be going fire and brimstone on these nazi monsters
I can see it both ways, on the one hand many of our enemies just wield religion as a weapon without actually believing in anything other than money and on the other they’re also blasphemous genocidal demons who belong in hell
Taking 2 different seemingly opposite paths to attack our enemies from both angles only to end up in the same place, is that not dialectical?
Rhetoric won’t convince many full-on fascists anymore but there are plenty of people that are generally ignorant of everything still, and many people that at least call themselves Christian in the west. I do believe hammering on the immoral and anti-Christian aspect of ICE raids, fascism, and capitalism in general can maybe do some good in those circles. My grandma is a church-going Christian from a military family generally conservative but talks about how Jesus would say basically all of the conservative politicians and rich people today are going to hell.
I just harp on how most modern Christians pretend to worship God but instead worship at the foot of Mammon. And I am a pretty strident atheist, but I meet people where they are at.
100% agree
best i can do is a methodist pastor saying televangelist megachurches are bad
Religious people do also exist outside the USA.