I once asked my dad what he thought gods kingdom on earth would be like (this is post end-times evangelical shit) and he tried to tell me that it would basically be the same. I was like wow that’s really unimaginative and incredibly bleak, like we’re talking about god who can end scarcity and you think you’ll still be going to McDonald’s screaming at min wage workers bc they left a pickle on your burger? I really was kinda painful laughing that this was the garbage he wanted me to accept growing up (I clearly had a much different idea of what god wanted than my parents).
After that he tried to pretend that it was gonna be a post scarcity world when he would mention the glorious future kingdom of god here on earth, but unfortunately he tends to bullshit me as a way to peddle this nonsense. It’s sad seeing these people warp what good Christianity could be (someone is going to read this sentence and get triggered, yes don’t worry I know) into something that just reinforces hierarchy and suffering.
I was a devout Catholic many centuries ago and let me tell you that when I did believe in god nothing made me feel more twisted and weird (and condemnatory, at the time) than finding out how small the evangelical god is
I would flat out tell them that their god is so small and petulant and trifling that he isn’t worthy of worship. I denied we worshipped the same god. And I really still don’t believe it even as an atheist. It’s just self worship and when the person selling you it has a small imagination you get a very small god. Womp womp, sucks to suck, etc
He’s in good company, Hegel thought that the ultimate goal of dialectics, the perfect idea that all of history strives toward had already be accomplished in the Prussian monarchy. Which just happened to be the system he lived comfortably in.
I once asked my dad what he thought gods kingdom on earth would be like (this is post end-times evangelical shit) and he tried to tell me that it would basically be the same. I was like wow that’s really unimaginative and incredibly bleak, like we’re talking about god who can end scarcity and you think you’ll still be going to McDonald’s screaming at min wage workers bc they left a pickle on your burger? I really was kinda painful laughing that this was the garbage he wanted me to accept growing up (I clearly had a much different idea of what god wanted than my parents).
After that he tried to pretend that it was gonna be a post scarcity world when he would mention the glorious future kingdom of god here on earth, but unfortunately he tends to bullshit me as a way to peddle this nonsense. It’s sad seeing these people warp what good Christianity could be (someone is going to read this sentence and get triggered, yes don’t worry I know) into something that just reinforces hierarchy and suffering.
I was a devout Catholic many centuries ago and let me tell you that when I did believe in god nothing made me feel more twisted and weird (and condemnatory, at the time) than finding out how small the evangelical god is
I would flat out tell them that their god is so small and petulant and trifling that he isn’t worthy of worship. I denied we worshipped the same god. And I really still don’t believe it even as an atheist. It’s just self worship and when the person selling you it has a small imagination you get a very small god. Womp womp, sucks to suck, etc
He’s in good company, Hegel thought that the ultimate goal of dialectics, the perfect idea that all of history strives toward had already be accomplished in the Prussian monarchy. Which just happened to be the system he lived comfortably in.