I mean, it’s American Churchianity, a for-profit business run by grifters since Azusa Street, and but the latest incarnation of the grift that’s been the hallmark of every organized religion in history. Whatever God or lack of God you might have, people walking away from that trash is a thing to celebrate.
I always thought I would be, but the problem now is that it’s still basically there but hyper-decentralized and individually radicalizing in a way that’s totally unbounded by any institution.
Like I think it’s arguably gotten worse because the worst parts of faith clung on (bigotry, insularity, victim complex, magical thinking, etc.), except now wholly decoupled from any of the actually decent teachings churches would normally (nominally) profer like charity, community, humility, etc.
Oh, and as a corollary, a lot of it has just been leeched away by Trump and his cult.
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I mean, it’s American Churchianity, a for-profit business run by grifters since Azusa Street, and but the latest incarnation of the grift that’s been the hallmark of every organized religion in history. Whatever God or lack of God you might have, people walking away from that trash is a thing to celebrate.
I am. I’m enjoying every second of it.
I always thought I would be, but the problem now is that it’s still basically there but hyper-decentralized and individually radicalizing in a way that’s totally unbounded by any institution.
Like I think it’s arguably gotten worse because the worst parts of faith clung on (bigotry, insularity, victim complex, magical thinking, etc.), except now wholly decoupled from any of the actually decent teachings churches would normally (nominally) profer like charity, community, humility, etc.
Oh, and as a corollary, a lot of it has just been leeched away by Trump and his cult.
I’m queer and this is a good thing that makes my life better.