Dogmas are always problematic for me, and I tend to see religion as mostly a set of dogmas.

I've always seen faith and religion as two separate things. Faith is personal ...

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@Eelco Mulder :mastodon: 🇪🇺 Dogmas are always problematic for me, and I tend to see religion as mostly a set of dogmas.

Faith and religion

I've always seen faith and religion as two separate things. Faith is personal conviction, religion is someone else's convictions that are forced upon you.

If you haven't seen the (Dutch) film Simon, you should. Other than being a really, really good film, it also has the main character give us this wisdom:

Every form of organized religion is wrong.

I agree. Faith is fine, religion is (mostly) not. Let everybody think for themselves: a "moral compass" should be in your head, not in random ancient texts.

But if the gist of your holy scripture is to be nice to each other, to help those in need and to see all human beings as equal, several serious questions and doubts should pop up in your mind if an openly racist misogynist with a long list of convictions for crimes that also go against the Ten Commandments, says he is a true christian. Is he? And if so, are you?

What would Jesus do?

Again, I'm an atheist, but I have absolutely no problem with telling people that face a moral question, to ask themselves "what would Jesus do?"

For me, Jesus wasn't an immortal deity who could walk on water, but simply someone who pointed out the same societal problems we see today: inequality, poverty, greed, abuse of power, hypocrisy... He wasn't the first or the last to do that either.

Creeds on greed

Jesus was crystal clear about greed; this article, "What did Jesus say about greed?", explains it exactly like I see it.

That's pretty much the same as what Buddha teaches us, only the goal to reach is not a god or heaven, but enlightenment.

I like to see myself as a socialist, a concept that is based on the same ideas as those preached by Jesus and Buddha: help each other, and share. Capitalism is the opposite of that: grab what you can.

A true Christian can never also be a capitalist, at least not without an unhealthy dose of hypocrisy.

#USpol #MAGA #christianity #Bible #dogma #christofascism #atheism #buddhism #socialism #hypocrisy #NSGOP #greed #capitalism #AgentOrange #OrangeDefiler #RichFool #GoodSamaritan

🇨🇦 Christofascist white nationalism - MAGA Premier Danielle Smith Goes Full MAGA Right Wing on Hate Speech
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/08/07/Smith-Goes-Full-MAGA-Right-Wing-Hate-Speech

Electoral Manipulation in Canada: Alberta's Democracy Under Siege
https://blog.persagen.org/alberta-electoral_fraud.pdf

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism #theocracy #tyranny
🇨🇦 #DanielleSmith #Trumpism

#transgenocide #transmisogyny 🏳️⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

💰️ Capitalism: Malignant Tumor
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf

Wealth <--> protects <--> power

#capitalism vs.#DemocraticSocialism

Good: Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings cares More Deeply About Trans Rights Than Any Other Issue, calls out anti-trans bigots / cowards
https://www.them.us/news/ken-jennings-trans-rights
https://www.advocate.com/news/ken-jennings-trans-rights

Bad: Michigan salon owner violated law by directing trans people to pet groomers
https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/michigan-salon-transphobic-consequences

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism
🇨🇦 #DanielleSmith #Trumpism

#transgenocide #transmisogyny 🏳️⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

Capitalism: Malignant Tumor
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf

#capitalism v. #socialism

RE: https://mstdn.party/@mcspocky/117011267732384614

FYI this is a sin if you’re a #catholic.

i get one of the big things about Vatican II is to pivot away from talking damnation, but this is 100% against the #Beatitudes; and the reason Papa Kiko and Pope Bob have made it very clear LGBTQI are god’s children too.

also: this #cruelty is so typical of USA #evangelicalism (aka #christofascism) that bears reminding, most USA evangelical groups refuse to join the communion of ecumenism proposed by the RCC that rejects antisemitism, homophobia, etc

McSpocky™ » 🌐 2026-07-30
@mcspocky@mstdn.party

A West Virginia pastor just let his food bank go completely empty because he refused donations from any group supporting LGBTQ people. Called it an “abomination.” Now hungry families get nothing as he plays holy warrior. Choosing bigotry over feeding people.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/west-virginia-pastor-rejects-food?r=1tqkr4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true&open=false

Companies invariably incentivize greed / profit - not the public / common good - regardless of front-facing statements and policies.

Capitalism is the cancer destroying societies / planet Earth.

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism #theocracy #tyranny
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wealth <--> protects <--> power

#capitalism #billionaires #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability

Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

🇺🇲 U.S. military machine destroying our planet
https://therealnews.com/abby-martin-the-us-military-machine-is-destroying-our-planet

“It’s time for you guys to wake up, because we don’t want our planet destroyed [by] your out-of-control government and military empire.” << 100x this

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism #theocracy #tyranny
🇨🇦 #Trumpism

Wealth <--> protects <--> power

#capitalism #billionaires #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability

🇨🇦 #SamSlick: Mark Carney’s Saudi Arabia reboot
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/mark-carneys-saudi-arabia-reboot-9.7264718
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Salman#Controversies

Who needs { Human rights | Social justice | Civil rights / liberties }?
#SaudiArabia #Qatar #UAE #SportsWashing

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf

Wealth <-> protects <-> power

#capitalism
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability

Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = climate change

🇺🇲 Christofascism Tennessee HB754: Tracking trans folx - Extremist GOP anti-trans bill will force doctors to help create list of trans residents 🤨
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/new-extreme-gop-anti-trans-bill-will-force-doctors-to-help-create-a-list-of-trans-residents

https://capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/HB0754.pdf

Nazi's did something similar, btw

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #theocracy #BiblicalPatriarchy #antiLGBTQ+ #misogyny #tyranny #whiteNationalism

🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism

#transgenocide #transmisogyny 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

🇺🇲 Christofascism: Tennessee designates June “Nuclear Family Month” in war on LGBTQ+
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/tennessee-designates-june-nuclear-family-month-as-part-of-on-lgbtq-visibility

“God” wants families to have “1 husband/1 wife”

HJR0182
https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/HJR0182.pdf
https://legiscan.com/TN/text/HJR0182/2025

🇺🇲 🇨🇦 Christofascist conservative movements seek white nationalist theocracy rooted in biblical patriarchy/"family voting"

#Christofascism #BiblicalPatriarchy #misogyny #theocracy
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #Trumpism

#transgenocide #transmisogyny 🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

🇺🇲 Christofascism: “Nuclear Family Month” - MAGA coming for same-sex marriage
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/29/nuclear-family-month-shows-that-maga-is-still-coming-for-same-sex-marriage

Red state anti-Pride proclamations demonize most straight people along LGBTQ folks

April 2026 🇺🇲 Tennessee designates June “Nuclear Family Month” in war on LGBTQ+
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/116409627840591384

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism #theocracy
🇨🇦 #DanielleSmith #Trumpism

Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf

#capitalism #billionaires
v.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability

Christian Nationalism is Roman Constantinian Idolatry

This political idolatry of 'Christian Nationalism' is not new. Only the wide perception of it is new due to everyone now being plugged into the Internet via their ever-present phones and tablets.

In the 1600s through the 1800s we see the political idolatry was at fever pitch and full swing, giving a host of politically-oriented cults, such as Witch-burning Puritanism, Swedenborgianism, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, etcetera. Even the Anglican church is an Imperialist political cult and has no warrant or sanction in the Holy Scriptures. It is a 'nationalist' tyranny over the mind. And then we see Islam, which Christians mistakenly believe to be a non-Christian religion. Islam is a Christian heresy, founded by heretical Catholics. Even the name, "Mohammed" is a corruption of the earlier Arabic, "Mahmed" meaning, "Messiah". Islam is an offshoot of medieval Christianity with its Saturn idolatry gone to seed. Islam is a daughter of Babylon, the Judeo-Roman prostitute.

Christianity has always been a politically idolatrous cult. For instance, The council of Nicea was convened by the Apollo-worshiping, Luciferian Emperor Constantine for nefarious and ungodly political purposes. Every bishop who was a political apparatchik showed up, ironing out a fascist version of Christianity that was forced on the empire by the sword for centuries.

The luciferians try to repeat this in every generation in which it looks like Christians will flee the Church plantation for the true body of Christ outside the Church.

Remember, the outer sea court of the temple was for the Gentiles (nations). The kingdom was removed from the inner court and given to them without. Christian authoritarians still have not recognized this.

If you want to advocate for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity you need to leave behind the Imperial leadership model of the Church. The Apostles and the Reformers warned us about the man of sin sitting in the chair of the bishopric building his tower of Babel using the people (laity) as their bricks.

This thing commonly called, 'Christianity' is the backsliding idol worship of Israel in the Old Testament, brought to life in our current age. Jesus Christ is not a Christian. The Apostles of the Lamb are not Christians. Neither Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the Prophets would recognize Christianity as legitimate. The sum of all their teachings mark Christianity as an impostor religion of idolatrous customs trading darkness for light.

There is no municipal kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God cannot be brought about by the force of arms of mortal men. It comes by the Spirit of the Lord, not by the spirit of the world. Everyone pretending to build God's kingdom by inveigling, shaming, brow-beating, force, intimidation, fear-mongering, or authoritarianism, or civil government sanction, is an anti-christ, no matter how much they pretend to worship the Father and the Son and no matter how many zillions of times they claim their names.

In the Old Testament the Father prophesied to us the rise of the Christian world empire and its eventual destruction in the turning of the ages ahead. The Imperialist Christian cult likes to distract from its own wickedness by pretending Islam is the scapegoat, or by pretending Jews are the scapegoat. It might work for a time for their politics but God the Father is not fooled.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ..... How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."

The 'she' is the Christian Church. She is the harlot Babylon with her many Church babies, a true mother of political prostitutes and abominations of the earth. The Christian church glorifies herself and her system of bishopric authority instead of glorifying the simple gospel of Jesus Christ. Christianity is a machine for perpetuating its own system instead of setting the spiritual captives free.

We can truthfully say to the Christian Church what Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees of ancient Judea:

"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

In this age the first Adam who fell is the Church, the continuation of temple idolatry on life support. The second Adam who rises is Christ, or Jacob, who will supplant the first Adam as Jacob supplanted Esau in the birthright, as Jacob crossed his arms to swap the birthrights of Ephraim and Manasseh, as Isaac supplanted Ishmael, even as Paul the Apostle told us plainly. God has repeatedly told us how this Christian empire will be supplanted by Jesus Christ in the last days, yet Christians do not see what is plain in the scripture because they want political and spiritual power over other men, rather than being like Christ and humbly desiring to be a servant of servants for the love of God rather than recognition of position.

We learn from the Bible that God doesn't value man's concept of the birthright of authority, and freely supplants the older with the younger, even as he will supplant the older religious and Christian empire of the world with the younger Jesus of Nazareth.

#Christianity #Religion #Cults #Idolatry #Church #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ChristoFascism #Gospel #Jesus