"And what if group is bad, is it bad then?" well fucking duh genius. And I'm sorry, are you saying poc aren't religious/christian or are you saying they're white supremacist? Why are you painting in such broad strokes? Aren't African Americans the ones going to church the most?
I love me some John Brown/liberation theology, but they emerged out of periods of radical social progress and change, not present neoliberal stagnation.
I sincerely hope that the potential for spirituality charging the Left with a sense of social purpose is there—but I also acknowledge that in present-day America, the dominant forms of religiosity are entwined with capitalism, individualism, and the existing social hierarchy.
Let’s not leave Hegel on his head: religion follows a society’s material order, not the other way around. I’m not celebrating the decline in church attendance-i think it mostly speaks to American atomization and general lack of purpose and unalienated time post-2000s.
Of course I'm not saying that. But the white evangelical bloc, whatever you want to call it, is probably the strongest force of reaction in the United States after the capitalists themselves. I'm glad to see their numbers go down.
Sure but all of these people suddenly without community aren't just going to join mutual aid groups. They're going to attracted to groups that line up with their pre existing biases
"And what if group is bad, is it bad then?" well fucking duh genius. And I'm sorry, are you saying poc aren't religious/christian or are you saying they're white supremacist? Why are you painting in such broad strokes? Aren't African Americans the ones going to church the most?
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I love me some John Brown/liberation theology, but they emerged out of periods of radical social progress and change, not present neoliberal stagnation.
I sincerely hope that the potential for spirituality charging the Left with a sense of social purpose is there—but I also acknowledge that in present-day America, the dominant forms of religiosity are entwined with capitalism, individualism, and the existing social hierarchy.
Let’s not leave Hegel on his head: religion follows a society’s material order, not the other way around. I’m not celebrating the decline in church attendance-i think it mostly speaks to American atomization and general lack of purpose and unalienated time post-2000s.
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Of course I'm not saying that. But the white evangelical bloc, whatever you want to call it, is probably the strongest force of reaction in the United States after the capitalists themselves. I'm glad to see their numbers go down.
I don't know if declining church membership necessarily correlates to evangelicals suddenly becoming normal
Sure but all of these people suddenly without community aren't just going to join mutual aid groups. They're going to attracted to groups that line up with their pre existing biases
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I mean...there’s definitely a lot of reasons people aren’t going to church anymore.
That the communities themselves have to address.
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