Keeping in mind that I am not a religious person - this author's arguments re: the anti-ICE protest at a Southern Baptist (warning: danger Will Robinson) church where a local Gestapo pig is a part time pastor, is very good.
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Keeping in mind that I am not a religious person - this author's arguments re: the anti-ICE protest at a Southern Baptist (warning: danger Will Robinson) church where a local Gestapo pig is a part time pastor, is very good.
'Call To Unity' Re-enactors On MLK Day
In every age, the Very Serious People have insisted that protesting injustice is far worse than injustice itself.
slacktivist (www.patheos.com)
(Reminder: we aren't really worried about the God stuff any more than I'm worried about Decepticons, but the "holy shit you just did the thing, on the day, have you NEVER READ A HISTORY BOOK" part is excellent.)
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Keeping in mind that I am not a religious person - this author's arguments re: the anti-ICE protest at a Southern Baptist (warning: danger Will Robinson) church where a local Gestapo pig is a part time pastor, is very good.
'Call To Unity' Re-enactors On MLK Day
In every age, the Very Serious People have insisted that protesting injustice is far worse than injustice itself.
slacktivist (www.patheos.com)
(Reminder: we aren't really worried about the God stuff any more than I'm worried about Decepticons, but the "holy shit you just did the thing, on the day, have you NEVER READ A HISTORY BOOK" part is excellent.)
(I have often been frustrated with the exaggeration of the role of the Catholic Left in the Civil Rights, and Anti-Vietnam War struggles. But I will concede that a bunch of priests burning draft records and practicing AGGRESSIVE nonviolence (the kind you get arrested for ANYWAY) did make it much harder to portray the protests, activism, and even clashes with an authoritarian state as extremism, radicalism, or outside the bounds of regular society in an "us" versus "them" paradigm of whiteness.)
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(I have often been frustrated with the exaggeration of the role of the Catholic Left in the Civil Rights, and Anti-Vietnam War struggles. But I will concede that a bunch of priests burning draft records and practicing AGGRESSIVE nonviolence (the kind you get arrested for ANYWAY) did make it much harder to portray the protests, activism, and even clashes with an authoritarian state as extremism, radicalism, or outside the bounds of regular society in an "us" versus "them" paradigm of whiteness.)
(I think it's unwise to expect too much revolutionary praxis to rise out of the religious groups; PARTICULARLY given the central role of Christian Nationalism in this Trump movement. But there's a time and a place for everyone to make a contribution - and I don't think it would be wise to turn them down. Assuming this is a real thing, religious people who ain't nazis are thinking of doing - they been TALKING about it, for a while.)
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(I think it's unwise to expect too much revolutionary praxis to rise out of the religious groups; PARTICULARLY given the central role of Christian Nationalism in this Trump movement. But there's a time and a place for everyone to make a contribution - and I don't think it would be wise to turn them down. Assuming this is a real thing, religious people who ain't nazis are thinking of doing - they been TALKING about it, for a while.)
I am not religious, but I do respect Christians who actually try to live what Jesus taught about helping the poor and strangers.
Instead of, you know, building a cargo cult around him.