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My best friend, the late Sensei Byron Lewis, used to paraphrase Marx when he said, Religion is the opiate of the modern world– disconnecting disadvantaged people from the here and now, and dulling their engagement in progressive politics.
you're right, reading this was a painful journey. it took me so much further into the hidden truths, as well as the hidden twisted unconscious/dishonest motives behind and within it. every day i marvel again at how fast americans can gallop backwards to crueler times...faith is necessary, religion can be dangerous to life.... i appreciate you seeing into this and making it visible to me.
Beautiful article. As usual, I agree with 90% of the analysis, 10% of the conclusion. Well-wrought thinking but I don't think racism is the boogey-man we make it to be, and it's really a class-struggle. Or rather, values-struggle. Case in point - a couple was denied adoption even though they were happily married, sustainable, willing to adopt special-needs, open to all races, but balked on the LGBTQ+ criteria. The gap to bridge is so narrow it astonishes me. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/massachusetts-couple-denied-foster-care-application-lgbtq-views-compla-rcna99339
My best friend, the late Sensei Byron Lewis, used to paraphrase Marx when he said, Religion is the opiate of the modern world– disconnecting disadvantaged people from the here and now, and dulling their engagement in progressive politics.
Give up your soul and get paid when you die.
https://youtu.be/59yM2-xMeMQ
Caviezel should've stuck to PERSON OF INTEREST, where his scowling Roman Catholic gloominess could be used as humorous counterpoint....
...and all of us were sure he and Michael Emerson's Finch were gay lovers!
you're right, reading this was a painful journey. it took me so much further into the hidden truths, as well as the hidden twisted unconscious/dishonest motives behind and within it. every day i marvel again at how fast americans can gallop backwards to crueler times...faith is necessary, religion can be dangerous to life.... i appreciate you seeing into this and making it visible to me.
Beautiful article. As usual, I agree with 90% of the analysis, 10% of the conclusion. Well-wrought thinking but I don't think racism is the boogey-man we make it to be, and it's really a class-struggle. Or rather, values-struggle. Case in point - a couple was denied adoption even though they were happily married, sustainable, willing to adopt special-needs, open to all races, but balked on the LGBTQ+ criteria. The gap to bridge is so narrow it astonishes me. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/massachusetts-couple-denied-foster-care-application-lgbtq-views-compla-rcna99339