You don’t need religion to be a good person.
I mean some branches of the church did resist the Nazis in WW2.
I’m not a believer in salvation in the afterlife, but whomever dishes it out in this life deserves some faith.
Churches are some of the only third spaces left unfortunately.
Fund your local libraries, organize book clubs, go to the independent record shop and put up fliers.
Do this before ICE comes to your town.
How to organize a rapid response from a very high level with further detailed resources. https://southerncoalition.org/resources/rapid-response-101/
Good general advice on organizing, also a good resource to find groups near you that are likely aligned. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/organizer-resources
In fact, it makes many people WORSE.
The world would be a better place without religion.
Indeed.
The world would be better without humans
I don’t agree: some people need the fear of divine retribution to keep them from gestures broadly to the Epstein files
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that most of those people were at least nominally Christian.
Besides, if you need to be threatened into acting like a good person, you’re NOT a good person.
Others need the earth based divine retribution because gestures broadly to the Epstein files
The divine in that sentence is still assuming a god
Could just be assuming Ru Paul with The Matrix levels of weaponry.
You got my vote.
Yeah, lot of good it did them.
Or we could just legalize chainsawing pedos in half.
You don’t, but it is something that lets you organize a community in a way that enables them to act, for good or for ill. No reason to cede that exclusively to those who want to create a worse world
Yeah, if you do mutual aid lefty stuff for any amount of time you will almost certainly end up volunteering alongside a religious person who’s there for religious reasons at some point, and anybody who tries to kick an ally out of an antifascist coalition over a religious dispute may as well be a collaborator. If they’re there because god told them to, they’re there and that’s what matters.
Everyone anti-fascist is an ally, we can argue about where to go next after the fascists are gone.
straight to hell
All the fun people went there anyway.
This is anarchist praxis even if most people don’t realize it!
I think about that all the time. Especially when people online are like “do something”. We are doing something. Lots of things. Lots of small decentralized things so they can’t be targeted as easy.
Yeah, a better version of this article would talk about how Minneapolis has actually always been a kinda radical town, from the general strike in the 30s, AIM being founded there in the 60s, and the whole co-op wars stupidity that happened in the 70s, all the way through the RNC and Occupy protests in the 2000s. Like, there have been self identified anarchists in that city for almost a hundred years at least, and that has got at least as much to do with what we’re seeing as “patriotic and Christian values” do.
As a Twin Cities resident we are surprisingly radically progressive. I think it’s important to know how much “work” people did post George Floyd to look at racial bias and systematic change in progressive socials. I know of multiple book clubs of retirees reading books on anti-racism and white privilege. It was eye opening experience here
