I’m at a new job and working on a Saturday. This place is very “Christian-values blah blah blah” and at the end of our work day one of the supervisors is holding a prayer about “please God let this _ go smoothly and thank you for helping us etc.”
This isn’t the first time I’ve sat at a prayer that’s this selfish and asinine. Pretty sure I’ve been in a prayer thanking Jesus for some hot wings.
This kind of prayer was given today. Y’know, the day where some pretty awful things happened in a South American country but who cares about that /s
I don’t get Christians. They say all this nice stuff about their religion but the worship songs are very individualistic, talking about “Jesus saved me”, “my relationship with god”, “thank you God for x”. Never about other people. And of course none of the prayers today were for IDK the people who fucking bombed and murdered today in our bloody quest for oil?!?
Do these people really think their God gives a fuck if their hot wings taste good or if the printer works in the office today? If you really believed in this Devine being wouldn’t you want it to focus on the important things like IDK making sure everyone has food and shelter and maybe making life less miserable for the homeless people? WTF is wrong with Christians? Is this banal kind of “worship” also common in other religions or is this yet another reason to escape the U.S South 🤔
Not trying to dox myself but to clear up assumptions here the place I am working is close to the AME Zion type of churches. These are 99% African Americans.
Plusses: The worship music is better than when I was around Evangelicals. Some of their stuff has more R&B elements and is downright danceable!
Lots of “hug your neighbors” and interactive stuff. Feels like organizing TBH… but for an empty purpose. As an organizer in Socialist circles I look at a room like this and think of how powerful we could be if I could get this room to do food distribution in the surrounding neighborhood which is poor af.
Thanks ya’ll for taking my mainly rant post and teaching me a lot. When I was in my younger “edgy atheist” phase I would look at these people and think “why would you so willingly take up your slaveowners’ religion like this?” I realize that a) was racist, b) was not a good analysis. There’s power in reclaiming what is used to repress you. I’m not trying to make enemies of these people but understand them, mainly for job security but also because I want to believe devout Christians would read what Jesus said and be halfway there to becoming comrades. IDK the old testament is barbaric at points but the Jesus dude sounds like a comrade?