• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    (believe it or not, going to church is not “media.”)

    Do you know what happens to religious organisations or movements that starts to threaten the line laid down through the media by the status quo? This.

    The example posted also nicely demonstrates just how easily the status quo can be threatened by religion.

    Religion is a very important propaganda tool - but it doesn’t control squat. Control is a material thing - justifying that control isn’t.

    If you could control people through religion you wouldn’t need goon squads to terrorize people into giving you that control in the first place, would you? Humans are not zombies - they can interpret religious ideas on their own just as they can political ones.

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      4 months ago

      Religion is a very important propaganda tool - but it doesn’t control squat.

      That must be why LGBT+ people are so tolerated in Muslim and evangelical Christian communities in countries where being queer is legal, right? They’re really tolerated and loved and no one in a church or mosque is telling them they’re evil, just the media. Because you can’t control people through religion.

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        4 months ago

        There’s no need to go all reactionary atheist (a religion that has no churches or temples - but lots of media) on me - it’s not going to gain you anything.

        I’ll explain it this way -

        To be anti-LGBTQ+ is to be anti-working class. Period. No ifs, ands or buts.

        To be anti-religion is to be anti-working class. Period. No ifs, ands or buts.

        There is no contradiction here. If you think there is one, it’s your logic that requires examination.

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          4 months ago

          Who do you think tells them to be homophobic? Do you think it’s genetic or something? They get it from the churches.