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"We need a new religion"
I often hear people on the right speak this idea. I have often contemplated it myself. Alas I think those who long for a new religion are probably not fertile ground for it.
I often hear people on the right speak this idea. I have often contemplated it myself. Alas I think those who long for a new religion are probably not fertile ground for it.
âreligion" itself is a sterile word, a word for people who probably lack strong spiritual feeling. I am that kind, but I see the importance of religion to most people https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1017411297430736897?s=21
Based on my interactions here with Christians I have increasingly lost faith that Christianity can be an instrument of the right. In the past, everyone was on the right, relative to now, and maybe it is only coincidental that we associate these two ideological clusters
Within Christianity there are several dangerous and ultimately leftist affinities: the universality of salvation, the call to be meek, the emphasis placed on grace over works, and a certain persecution complex, among other things.
There have been Christian conquerors of course, and there are some nice bits where e.g., Paul tells women to be silent in church, but I am increasingly convinced that the arc of Christianity bends towards leftism. Trad-catholics: I like you but you seem to be outliers
Turning your back on the world and thinking of your treasures in heaven; maybe it comforts you. Faith is epistemologically self-contained by design, and I wish you well, but to me you look like ostriches to me if you do that, and to you I expect I seem mentally broken.
Maybe there are people incapable of faith. Even when I prayed every day, and routinely studied the bible, I could never find any reason to privilege "god is real and he hears me" over "I'm talking to myself and you become what you behold".
It's like the law of fives: if you constantly ask God for a sign, you are guaranteed to see one. I could join a church, but I don't think I could ever believe.
There's nothing rational about faith (there can't be) and there is nothing rational in my rejection of it. It feels unhinged. I'm sorry, I can't feel any other way.
But at least Christian men want to build society. Left-Christian men want to build it and then build themselves out of it. Right-Christian men often become useful idiots to the left. Right-atheists are an extreme minority. Left atheists just want to sit on a big dildo forever.
