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LMAOO

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Perfection is never attainable, but do you think the world would be a lot closer to perfect if Christianity had never fucking existed?

Not really. I think very few of the atrocities that get justified on religious grounds are actually religiously motivated at their core. It just happens to be that, as I've said before, when a religion's moral philosophy happens to be the dominant ideology in a society (or at least among its ruling classes), the language of its moral philosophy often gets used to formulate justifications for the atrocities that that society has material incentive to commit.

So e.g. taking european colonialism (which was commonly but not exclusively justified on the grounds of evangelization), as I said on another post: It's not that europe Did A Colonialism because there is anything inherent about christian moral philosophy that makes it more naturally predisposed to justifying colonialism, it's that justifications for colonialism were formulated in the language of christian moral philosophy because europe wanted to Do A Colonialism.

Like. The ruling classes of several european powers at the time found themselves in a position where engaging in global-scale colonialist projects would be both economically beneficial AND realistically achievable, and justifications for it were formulated in the moral language of christianity because christian morality happened to be the dominant moral paradigm in europe at the time. Without christianity the same thing would have likely happened (as long as the same material conditions existed) but justified in the language of a different moral paradigm.

Or, more concisely, I don't think christianity never having existed would inherently make the world significantly better or worse, because I don't think christianity is inherently any better or worse than any other religion, because religions don't have an inherent ideological character.

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i really hate 'power of love' stories not because i'm a jaded cynic or whatever but because i always find something deeply offputting and misanthropic in how they are almost always set up in a way that implies that the protagonist is the only person in the world capable of love

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there's a sentiment I see pretty often that's like—ward is a bad sequel, it's not congruent with amy's characterization in worm, but that was a necessary trade-off to tell a compelling story about trauma and abuse. and I just don't get it because if anything, reframing their dynamic to make amy more straightforwardly bad and victoria more straightforwardly good is a profoundly anti-victim approach to a recovery narrative; it takes for granted that if you did anything wrong before you were hurt, and the person who hurt you has any complexity beyond being a raving monster, you don't have the right to be traumatized by your experiences or to be forgiven for your own mistakes. and that's what the vast majority of real world abuse situations look like!

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currently running the Sweetie Pie Challenge where i dont hit anyone with a tire iron as hard as i can for seven days

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this is one of the best posts ever

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shoutout to the people currently in saw traps. you’re gonna make it out of this. unless you’re morally impure or otherwise unworthy of surviving ☺️

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the sentiment of analyzing why the US doesn't have manufacturing jobs & why the periphery manufacturing circumstances tend to be so miserable is great but you shouldn't talk of manufacturing jobs as if they can only be done by Low Paid Miserable Workers in the Pollution Housing Area That Poisons Everyone. that's not a correct view manufacturing and nor helpful if you believe a world outside the current miserable capitalism is possible

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liberals be like he bombed a country…. without congress approval

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A couple years later it's still amazing what a perfect distillation the original "anonymized people of the global south" tweet is of the absolute callousness of yankee liberals.

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do you remember that one post a few months ago about like. "everyone around you has brain damage from long covid and that's why you're so much better than them"

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heartbreaking: youtuber who previously made decent videos about map games made a godawful half hour of transmisogynistic nonsense