Holy shit

Best way to do any kind of trial payment, just go ahead and cancel right then and you’re good

"Oh, well MY rights aren't being threatened HERE" yeah, for now! But the permission structure is being built in real time & no amount of I'm Speaking stickers is going to prevent those same tank treads from rolling right over you the minute it's politically advantageous for them to do so

This transactional lesser evil shit liberals do is so annoying because at the heart of it lies a kind of selfishness and otherization that can only manifest safely behind the borders of a world leader in extrajudicial violence and colonial extraction, it fundamentally dehumanizes the outgroup

The church rose to power as a political tool as much as it did a spiritual one. The institutions which claim to speak for God and his people in the modern age are the constructions of a fallen world ruled by evil people. They do not represent the true nature of the divine, if such a thing exists.

But they don't, and they never have. The Jesus preached from the pulpits of imperial churches is nothing like Yeshua of Nazareth. He represents everything their worldview detests, so they do what they can to obscure his message. This would be self-evident to anyone who had actually read the book. 3/

When the previous two popes adopted a more liberal public attitude, they fled again to Orthodoxy. It's history and arcane nature made it feel exciting to engage with Christianity again through a new lens. They assumed that the REAL teachings of Christ must align with their theocratic worldview. 2/

Under the right circumstances a little bit of loud guitar bro country hits pretty good even though it's completely vacuous