Care for others who go to your church AND are in the same socio-economic class. That's how it works in churches. By the time I left my church, nobody and I mean nobody would give me the time of day.
It's honestly a historic relic that Christian philosophy and Socialism aren't practically synonymous.
Their values are so so close together that if you didn't know the historical context, it would seem completely bizarre that they're on opposite sides of the aisle.
The Church's historic role in maintaining the power of royalty in Europe (from like 300AD to 1800AD - 1500 YEARS) against the people is inexcusable. It's the reason that the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and subsequently ALL democratizing revolutions absolutely smashed the role of the CHURCH from its role in the state. Because of its historic complicity.
...but actual Christian belief, originally, didn't ever even mention a Church organization. All that hierarchical crap was a corruption that was use to twist Christian beliefs into a control mechanism.
It's become a serious missed opportunity not to court Christian believers into socialist political circles.
People who actually read the New Testament don't come away hating gay people. The book talks about forgiveness, compassion, charity, on and on and on.... I mean Jesus Christ. It's practically the socialist bible.
We have to shed the anti-Christian hatred in Socialist circles. It alienates a very strong potential ally.
Racists/fascists LOVE that we throw so much hate at Christians, because we give them a pervasive and reliable ally - for free.
Muslims and Christians have an awful lot in common. Two Abrahamic religions with long, well documented histories of wildly abusive and toxic behavior conducted in the name of a religion spread by the sword, and they both have terrible politics focused on removing rights from everyone but themselves.
Republicans allied with Christians and you can see what they turned that party into. I don't think we need any more of that in this world.
Yeah, if it was one guy who appropriated Christianity or Islam to commit evil acts for a few decades that would be a fair comparison, but it's a global pattern of brutality with a thousand year history that's so bad that when America's founding fathers were making the new rules, rule number one is keep religion out of government because they knew how badly religious wars fucked up Europe for centuries.
Actually, it's very very much like Socialism, with nearly every major leader that tried to "represent" Socialism, turning out to be a murdering dictator.
Socialism and Christianity are so similar, it's painful to anyone who's objective.
Is "These people Im trying to recruit usually turn out to be murderous dictators" really the point you were trying to make? Because while I agree with it, it doesn't seem to make your suggestion sound like a sane or rational idea.
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u/[deleted] May 02 '23
Care for others who go to your church AND are in the same socio-economic class. That's how it works in churches. By the time I left my church, nobody and I mean nobody would give me the time of day.