• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    15 days ago

    Jesús fucking Christ man. Why are conservatives this stupid? Nobody gives a shit if you’re Christian, they’re making shit up.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      15 days ago

      For my money it’s the Louisianan public schools requiring the 10 commandments be shown in the classroom.

      And if you actually knew me well you’d know how Christians appropriated a pagan celebration - Jesus was not in the story of the first Christmas

      I’m also fairly confident that they still make Christian Christmas slop

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      14 days ago

      I think the American strain of this in particular is because the right wing needed something to organize around after the Soviet Union fell, and figured out that it didn’t have to be real for them to organize around it.

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        14 days ago

        I mean I was born a year after the SU fell, but like… were Christian’s not like this 35+ years ago? I find that hard to believe. Like wasn’t the satanic panic in the 70’s?

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          Satanic Panic was 90s.

          I mean, it’s not that there weren’t elements of this stuff before, it just wasn’t the massive animating force it is today.