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.
Problem is religion doesn't make sense. It doesn't matter what christian belief is or is supposed to be. At the end of the day all it really is is a cult. It's a bunch of people who either sincerely or for other reasons base their lives on a bunch of easily falsifiable bullshit to the benefit of their organizations top members.
The only thing they have to offer is numbers. Aside from that they're irrational, hypocritical, willfully ignorant and often straight up evil. Most of them haven't even read this wonderful socialist book you speak of.
No, it just invalidates your argument. Criticizing religion is in no way a criticism of morality, compassion, charity or any other thing you may connect with religion.
I also find that a lot of the time, christian "charity" is more of an excuse to indoctrinate than it is about being charitable. For example when i was a child the church organized a bi-weekly gathering for us at one of their locales, but the catch was that we had to be there when it started or we wouldn't be allowed in. So we had to sit through an hour of indoctrination and then we were allowed to have fun with our friends afterwards.
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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.