Forwarded from The common and his serious political stances
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Forwarded from Syndiegram (socialist raccoon)
Conservatives, reactionaries and fascists use Jesus as a fucking mascotte. We should embrace the figure of Jesus and his message.
1) It would own them so much
2) Helps to swing the libs (if conservatives are just "very christian" and the Left goes "Hail satan!", who do you think an idiotic centrist is going with? Even if "hail satan" is mainly a meme and the right is evil incarnated at this point)
3) Jesus's core teaching is coherent with leftist ideology
And mind you, this was done before, just read about Liberation Theology
1) It would own them so much
2) Helps to swing the libs (if conservatives are just "very christian" and the Left goes "Hail satan!", who do you think an idiotic centrist is going with? Even if "hail satan" is mainly a meme and the right is evil incarnated at this point)
3) Jesus's core teaching is coherent with leftist ideology
And mind you, this was done before, just read about Liberation Theology