A good essay would put this next to evangelical Christianity which suggests freedom is making yourself a “slave to god” - outsourcing all decisions to your pastor
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Humans keep reinventing gods.
aug 23, 2025, 1:26 pm • 8 0 • view
also press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
aug 23, 2025, 5:09 pm • 11 2 • view
hm maybe I should read that 'un
aug 23, 2025, 5:16 pm • 2 0 • view
I have a couple for you: 1/
aug 24, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
A second one: 2/ open.substack.com/pub/johnsund...
aug 24, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
This one discusses the emerging alliance of Peter Thiel's transhumanist/neo-Christian/technofascism with Mike Johnson's Christian-nationalist fascism, with JD Vance as cat's paw of both factions: 3/4 open.substack.com/pub/johnsund...
aug 24, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
And this essay, featuring my illustrated dystopian phantasmagoria The Pains, about a world that's a mashup of Orwell's 1984 and Ronald Reagan's, ruled by a cabal of technofascists and christianists. I wrote it in 2008 but it's about today. open.substack.com/pub/johnsund...
aug 24, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
And, from the pastor to the husband/father.
aug 23, 2025, 5:14 pm • 2 0 • view
why is he selling "it can suggest great outfits" with a photo of 2 men who appear to have gone out to dinner in their undershirts
aug 23, 2025, 5:28 pm • 11 0 • view
"ChatGPT take the wheel"
aug 23, 2025, 5:35 pm • 5 0 • view
my question for people who write articles like this (and there have been a couple) is: are you too stupid to dress yourself? didn't you learn that in elementary school?
aug 23, 2025, 5:13 pm • 3 0 • view
nailed it
aug 24, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
From one opium of the people, to another. In the modern religion, God word is efficiency optimization and accumulation.
aug 23, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
All Christianity involves that to some extent. Excellent comparison.
aug 23, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Outsourcing decisions to your pastor or to God? Because I can tell you the former isn't universal, and the latter is arguable if you mean disengaging one's own agency. (Mainly because there is no guaranteed way to discern what God wants that isn't hugely socially conditioned.)
aug 23, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
To God. Most (all?) denominations will have rules that they say God set.
aug 24, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
Weird, I belong to a United Methodist congregation and we're not that rules-laden. Back in the day when I was part of an American Baptist church, the minister gave a sermon on Jesus' practice of situational ethics. Mainline Protestantism is different from your assumptions.
aug 24, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
Seeing grandparents tell their grandchildren they are going to hell because they are a slightly different denomination of Lutheran, it seems shocking that a Protestant denomination would be fine with people just believing and doing whatever they want.
aug 24, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
The ones telling ppl they are going to hell are from the splinter denominations, not from the mainline ones. (ELCA is the mainline Lutheran denomination.) The American Baptist church I grew up in has been openly pro-gay rights since 1998. Sorry your experience is so limited.
aug 24, 2025, 11:53 am • 2 0 • view
The previous pastor of my church had a bumper sticker in his office that said "coexist" made out of the symbols of various faith traditions (c was a crescent, X was a Star of David, t was a cross)
aug 24, 2025, 11:56 am • 0 0 • view
In my case it was the most popular denomination in the region of the country, not a splinter group. I would still be very surprised to hear any pastor of a Christian congregation be perfectly say that going to church, praying, and believing in god is unimportant. Why even go to church then?
aug 24, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes open.spotify.com/track/4ZaEDN... open.spotify.com/track/7MHkwe...
aug 23, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t think these morons realize that giving your life over to your pastor or religion is not the glory. They think it is. Christianity has been corrupt and the source of much death and suffering since its inception. Take a look at what’s going on in Muslim countries where Sharia law is ruling
aug 23, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view