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Liberal Eminem defends collaborating with MAGA chud Kid Rock on Kid Rock's new christian music album (thelemmy.club)
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Not about choosing sides, just choosing to make music with my old friend. Praying for all of us. #HealMyFaith @KidRock

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Eminem Defends New Kid Rock Collaboration

Kid Rock and Eminem's new collaboration has been turning heads. Though the pair have been friends for decades, their political views are famously opposed, as Kid Rock is an avid MAGA supporter and Eminem is a vocal critic of Trump. In a new post, Eminem defended his decision to work with the controversial figure.

"Not about choosing sides, just choosing to make music with my old friend. Praying for all of us," Eminem wrote about "Heal My Faith," which comes from Kid Rock's new Christian album Halfway 2 Jesus. In his verse, Eminem raps, "From shock rap to the rock rap, my homie and me/ He is my brother, not my political enemy."

In an interview with Billboard, Kid Rock said about Eminem, "We've been friends for, like, 40 years. I really didn't want to drag him into my political world…. We talk about [politics] a little bit, not a ton. There's a lot of stuff we agree on, and we can have a laugh about what [we don't]. That's why I asked him to write a verse for me."

Last month, Kid Rock was supposed to perform at a MAGA festival in Kentucky but it was canceled because only six people bought VIP tickets.

This is the lyrics to the Kid Rock song featuring Eminem. The song was released yesterday. Lil Wayne is also featured on a different track of the album.
https://genius.com/Kid-rock-heal-my-faith-lyrics

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[–] 11 points 11 hours ago* (2 children)

do you actually have any knowledge of christian history over the past 2000 years?

Knowing Christian history just makes Christianity look worse. For example:

CW: Colonialism, CSA

  • The embracing of Christianity by the Roman Empire as a tool of Imperial propaganda and conquest
  • The Russian Orthodox Church acting as a major legitimizer of Tsar Nicholas' massacres of Jews and Communists
  • Britain's violent imposition of Christianity on its African colonies including sodomy laws that are still being used to persecute LGBT people today
  • The Spanish Church's collaboration with Franco's regime in the violent suppression and later mass murder of communists during and after the Spanish Civil War
  • The Catholic Church's decades-long systemic protection of pedophile priests
  • Medieval Crusaders massacring tens of thousands of noncombatants and children in Béziers because "God knows his own"
  • The Catholic Church being a massive landlord and tightly-knit collaborator with the monarchy in pre-Revolution France

It was Gabrielle, a woman during the French Revolution, who famously said "we must shoot the priests."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago*

    there is a difference between knowing history and cherry-picking it to argue for a pre-conceived notion. i could use the exact same "methodology" and argue for the exact opposite point, bringing up how the holy synod's role in tsarist repression was opposed by other sects (dukhobors, molokans and others), as well as even dissident orthodox clergy. i could mention how european colonisers repressed indigenous african, indian and middle eastern forms of christianity. i could point out how the cathars you mentioned, being massacred during the albigensian crusade, viewed themselves as a christian sect as well. i could also mention how liberation theology provided invaluable help to liberation movements in latin america, talk about hilarion capucci and vlada zečević, etc., etc…

    also, would it in your eyes be just to condemn all of islam due to daesh? would you go so far as to denounce all of buddhism because of the rohingya genocide? how about declaring all of judaism to be equal with religious zionism, or using modi and the bjp as a reason to smear all 1.2 billion hindus as an irredeemable evil? so let',s not argue against caricatures.

    you mentioned the bourgeois french revolutionaries trying to abolish religion. did they succeed? condemning ordinary religious people is a needless own-goal. it's a great way to make enemies of a sizeable majority of the global working class for no benefit.

    (also, as a side note, do you have a source for that gabrielle quote? i'd like to read it in context.)

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  • [–] 9 points 11 hours ago*

    The Russian orthodox church within living memory (As in, within the last 10 years) ran an open political campaign to legalise domestic violence.

    But sure. It's just "Smelling our own dung" to find that bad.

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