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[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 months ago

I dislike religion, but you're not wrong. Interacting with one another putting on friendly faces and performing kindness and fellowship until for some it becomes real.

For all the fakery and frauds, without that dance it's so much harder to find the people we really connect with.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

As a Christian Anarchist, I often find myself lonely and without a third place as well, because of what churches have become.

Yeah, I still haven't found a church that I felt I belonged in. I got close once, but they couldn't pay skyrocketing rent hikes and got taken over by a larger, faker, church. One that was more about feel-good seminars and recruiting free labor volunteers than anything Jesus actually had to say.

Churches of old in the US used to be based. People of today wouldn't recognize them. They helped the poor and were a third place and looked out for each other, they were also pro-union, and this became a huge "Problem" for capitalists, who saw Christians as annoying leftists who didn't share their pathological obsession with money.

There was a VERY concerted and well documented conspiracy by the moneyed class to infiltrate and rot American Christianity into the often capitalist, Republican-talking-point drooling zombie it is today.

Highly recommend Behind the Bastards: How the Rich ate Christianity to see just how deep this goes.

That's definitely how we got the "God is not only okay with, but wants you to be fabulously rich" types today.

The Church used to be a threat to these barons and tyrants and bigots, rather than their lapdogs.

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