Why the fuck does a church have a $2,000,000 solid gold tacky box anyway?

Pretty cool to decapitate the statue too. I like their style. Go big or go home.

  • geikei [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Every organized religion (catholic church evem more so) has caused , as institutions and historical movements, huge insane amounts of suffering and was and is riddled with corruption. Billions of people are still religious and have strong ties with those institutions as an avenue for their faith in our current hellworld (or hold close to the idols and formalities of those organized religions)

    Socialists who try to build a mass movement and still are far from existing in a revolutionary society were all of this can be radicaly reformed shouldnt be openly celebrating and promoting the destruction of people idols and places of worship no matter how bourgeois or luxurious. Most people's religious lifes or beliefs are still held at that level due to eons of insititutions, propaganda and oppression weighting down on them. Sucks yeah but thats reality . Where and how should we meet the people on this subject? By saying and thinking its epic ?

    Push for liberation theology, promote healthy communal and personal expressions of religion, point out to the corruption of organized religions and their horrible history. But disrespecting the religious and celebrating the destruction of churches and temples before any of this work has taken hold is deeply dumb,edgy and most of all counterproductive

      • geikei [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Most catholics are probably against church wealth accumulation in various degrees and open to that convo and so "amenable to socialism" . At the same time the very same people and almost all of catholics are strongly against the decapitation of statues or destruction of a catholic church and would have strong negative reactions to it. So you are back again to what i descibed

      • geikei [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        some religious institutions like the catholic church are actively malignant, child abusing, wealth-siphoning, hives, and looting luxury items bought with money scammed from their flock is cool and good

        Yeah like i said Catholic church is worse than most historicaly and contemporarily(and also closer to people in this sub culturaly) but these issues and descriptions apply very much so for most of the big religious institutions across the globe to such degrees that saying "In the catholic church's case its different" doesnt hold much water imo.

          • geikei [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Accumulation of luxury items from poor people's donations or exploitation by the isntitution itself (or even by conquest based on religious grounds) is again something all big religious institutions share historicaly. Im not saying to feel bad about this happening, just that imo the rhetoric and public position of socialists shouldnt be "This is good get owned lol" considering where the general religious public is and how far behind the left is regarding being able to influence and push towards helthier alternatives of religious expression and regarding breaking the connection between organized religious institutions and the masses.