Post 9plBAjXM6pZ3g3HYv2 by Eweish@radical.town
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(DIR) Post #9plBAisaYOxFdcD0NM by Eweish@radical.town
2019-12-08T15:28:31Z
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“Secular Christians” is a term that I’ve needed for like, my entire life but only just learned. Likewise “(secular) Christian hegemony”. Feels good to give gifts at any time of year, maybe even particularly during the winter. But wow are there a lot of people who think resistance to Christmas culture makes you a Scrooge or a Grinch or a contrarian rather than someone who doesn’t enjoy cultural evangelism.
(DIR) Post #9plBAjGh6mEkqNUFwu by Eweish@radical.town
2019-12-08T15:37:57Z
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Christian culture is so evangelist, recruiting is so fundamentally in its nature, that *being* anything other than how it sees the world is imagined to be a PR campaign and recruitment drive.
(DIR) Post #9plBAjXM6pZ3g3HYv2 by Eweish@radical.town
2019-12-08T15:46:45Z
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The basic cosmology of Christians is not just “one god and he can do anything but he’s also this specific man”. It’s also Adam and Eve bullshit, the notion that men are the basic units of human beings, reflecting (totally) God’s image. Women are the last thing to be created, an afterthought, whereas other animals always had “males” and “females.” Although Christians will claim that the Hebrew bible was made obsolete because Jesus (?) they return fondly to Adam and Noah,
(DIR) Post #9plBAjsGr4IKiv4GWG by Eweish@radical.town
2019-12-08T15:50:59Z
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Meanwhile Christmas is nowhere to be found because it’s perhaps the most successful product of Christianity’s cultural-colonial project: gobbling up any and all holy days and celebrations during the heart of Winter and merging them with the birth of Jesus Christ (which of course happened at the other end of the year entirely.)
(DIR) Post #9plBAk8Dtl3TWOX0Ns by Eweish@radical.town
2019-12-08T15:53:32Z
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Anyway fuck all of this, I’m not letting Xmas get a foot in the door again just like I’m not letting anyone tell me that there’s only two sexes or genders.
(DIR) Post #9plBAkOAwRocJrzkFU by Eweish@radical.town
2019-12-08T16:00:37Z
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And on the other hand, I’m through treating rejection of religion by cultural Christians as the default model of atheism or areligious life. It’s not. Likewise rejecting a two-gender model in favor of NO genders isn’t, in my eyes, much different from a Christian fundamentalist becoming a zealous atheist. You exist oppositionally to the point that any system other than the thing itself or rebellion against it is ignored or minimized.
(DIR) Post #9plBAkepwV8v9Xn3Dc by Eweish@radical.town
2019-12-08T16:05:28Z
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And for many it seems impossible to conceive even now of a world where *everyone* isn’t trying to recruit, where evangelism and conversion aren’t part of the basic model of how to live a life. Being a thing must mean that the person is trying to get everyone else to be what they are. It’s difficult to explain how baffling that notion of permanent evangelism is when you know it to be part of a culture that is trying to annihilate your own.