It’s a tragedy that we glorify the suffering, rather than the reason for it and triumph over it, metaphorically or literally. That’s profane, whether the empty cross, crucifix, murder and enslavement of millions based on gender/conformity, ethnicity, lack of/creed. Remember the suffering to not repeat it, on self or others, celebrate the triumph over such believable lies. If it’s wrong when done to us, it’s wrong to do it to each other.
If I was a conservative Christian I’d be deeply offended and distraught someone hijacking my religion and politics to do such inhumane things that actively go against the stated principals of both.
I was raised in a conservative Christian environment. It goes back decades. Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority in the 70s or thereabouts. He was successfully able to reshape conservative Christianity into a branch of the Republican party by making them feel like the only Christian choice was voting red. Over time, they’ve become merely a shell of what Christianity is supposed to be. I left in the early 2000s when I was in college. They refuse to see how they’ve been duped. And it’s worse now than when I was a part of it.
Big issue is modern conservativism does not reflect what conservatism actually should be. I don’t agree with either philosophy as a whole but the classical definition of a small government only just powerful enough to protect the rights of its citizens without any superfluous powers or privileges that could be abused for self enrichment or tyranny does have some merit, even if that merit has been buried in the political backyard since at least the 70s. Modern day Republicans are everything the conservatives who built the party feared.
We now have state sanctioned religion and it’s an ugly one that directly contradicts the words of its teacher.
But I wear a necklace with a cross on it. That it makes it all okay.
It’s a tragedy that we glorify the suffering, rather than the reason for it and triumph over it, metaphorically or literally. That’s profane, whether the empty cross, crucifix, murder and enslavement of millions based on gender/conformity, ethnicity, lack of/creed. Remember the suffering to not repeat it, on self or others, celebrate the triumph over such believable lies. If it’s wrong when done to us, it’s wrong to do it to each other.
Well said
If I was a conservative Christian I’d be deeply offended and distraught someone hijacking my religion and politics to do such inhumane things that actively go against the stated principals of both.
I was raised in a conservative Christian environment. It goes back decades. Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority in the 70s or thereabouts. He was successfully able to reshape conservative Christianity into a branch of the Republican party by making them feel like the only Christian choice was voting red. Over time, they’ve become merely a shell of what Christianity is supposed to be. I left in the early 2000s when I was in college. They refuse to see how they’ve been duped. And it’s worse now than when I was a part of it.
If you were a conservative Christian, you’d be as shitty as they are. The conservatism is the problem.
Big issue is modern conservativism does not reflect what conservatism actually should be. I don’t agree with either philosophy as a whole but the classical definition of a small government only just powerful enough to protect the rights of its citizens without any superfluous powers or privileges that could be abused for self enrichment or tyranny does have some merit, even if that merit has been buried in the political backyard since at least the 70s. Modern day Republicans are everything the conservatives who built the party feared.