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Holy fuck this is absolutely deranged.
The 
would be too kind.
Pastor at the end: “You see, it’s not fucked up because we’ve done it for 32 years”
That uh… doesn’t make it better.
At the same time, I understand that burning the churches and killing the clergy is what led to the destruction of the Popular Front and with it the main Anarchist stronghold in Europe, but then I see shit like this and wonder if I’d choose differently…
Every month I better understand why the Bolsheviks went around shooting priests
Alright, I’m joining the counter-reformation
American evangelical Christianity is a festering infection and should be handled how China treats the Falun Gong and I’m not joking. Evangelicals are simply the worst sect this evil country has produced. I have a bedgrduging respect for some of the other stupid American religions, like the Amish. At least the Amish do stuff like build barns and make furniture, plus they keep a dead language alive.
What do evangelicals have? They’re the epitome of wanting their cake and eating it too. Other stupid American religions are successful because they declare all of society as evil so they detach themselves from it. Like Mormons or the Scientologists or the Amish. They tell their followers to simply not even bother with broader society because it’s all evil. But fucking evangelicals want to both have their own stupid society but also be broadly accepted by wider culture so they make movies and have stupid creation museums and whatever.
At least the fucking Catholics built some cathedrals and whatever. Evangelicals simply put out unnerving church plays and Kevin Sorbo movies
What do evangelicals have?
What don’t they have? Evangelicals are IMO the politically strongest religious group in USA. They’re basically the Mormons of the East Coast. They are highly adapted to capitalist reality and earnestly hold up commodity fetishism as a virtue. They have their own massive university that can be thought of as a foil to their Mormon counterpart, BYU. Republican politicians routinely go through campus to hold major rallies. Evangelicalism is essentially the religious face of the Republican Party.
But fucking evangelicals want to both have their own stupid society but also be broadly accepted by wider culture
It’s more that their raison d’être is infinite expansion, infinite domination, infinite destruction of any impediment to their will and worldview. In this sense their ideology is a perfect expression of capitalism within the imperial core.
They are highly adapted to capitalist reality and earnestly hold up commodity fetishism as a virtue.
Consumerism, greed, fixation on possessions, etc. are not commodity fetishism. The “fetish” is not like a sexual fetish in that it means an obsession or deep desire for something, it’s a different re-appropriation of the outdated anthropological idea of people creating idols and then considering the idol that they created to be a god, the analogy being that commodities come to us as things that exist by themselves with the social relations that brought about their production being obscured.
The term is misused a lot, but I used it intentionally in the precise meaning you described, the sense that people attribute agency to commodities and The Market more broadly. Evangelicalism is a neoliberal religion that is highly adapted to contemporary capitalism. Whereas an “ordinary” politician speaks quasi-religiously about the so-called Founding Fathers and Liberty, Evangelicals attribute all these “virtues” of capitalism to God. In other words, capitalism is divinely inspired and to be capitalist is to be Christlike. It’s why evangelicals are among the most rabidly anticommunist: to be a Marxist is to oppose God, in fact to substitute humanity in his place.
I don’t understand how that explains your use of the term. I don’t think the vast majority of Evangelicals care one way or another about commodity fetishism and in fact tend to be crass examples of its effect in that the concept is basically invisible to them (like the social relations it describes), rather than them propounding its “virtue” somehow.
Ive tried to explain to people this exact mindset. Not that they need too much of an excuse. They don’t exist in reality, the material world was put here by God for them to use. No need to care about what happens, pollution, extinction, etc.
in fact, ushering in “the apocalypse” faster might be in their interests. I do remember wishing the world would end so I could “hurry up and go to heaven” bleak shit.
The Mormons and Scientologists don’t exactly leave society alone either
Oh, we shittin on Mormons in here?
I have a photo from a highschool dance with 14 closeted queer kids in it. 3 of us are still alive. Fuck the LDS church.
I’m glad you’re here (especially to enlighten us with the quote in your profile lol)
I shidded
Mormonism is functionally just another evangelical sect
literally indistinguishable in their cult-like shittyness, just slightly different packaging. Reminded me a lot of how pentecostals are except maybe slightly less hardcore on the facade (just the ones I encountered)
The Southern Baptist church split from the normal Baptist church because of their support for slavery. After the civil war every one of their buildings should’ve been burned to the ground and the followers forcibly disbanded
The pastor is doing his best to imitate a character from the OG Starcraft cutscenes.
I am really curious what the narrative of this horrific lynching play is.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ESzywZpPs/
Here is the pastor’s rebuttal. “Its supposed to be fun!”
Apparently they have been doing this same thing for 30 years. I’ve been reading about this for the past couple days because it’s not too far from where i live. There were Reddit comments that said they saw a similar skit in 1997! But they was a more cartoon devil - it seems that the representation of ‘evil’ has shifted from the devil to an immigrant over time
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