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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jul-2018 21:44:47 EDT Nate Cull

   I think I may need to read Jeff Sharlet's 'The Family', because he knows his stuff:

   << American fundamentalism's original sentiments were as radically democratic in theory as they have become repressive in practice, its dream not that of Christian theocracy but a return to the first century of Christ worship, before there was such a thing called Christianity.>>

   Yep. That's the weirdest thing about the whole US Industrial-Religion Complex.

   https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060559793/the-family/

   1. Laura Ritchie (lauraritchie@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jul-2018 02:14:59 EDT Laura Ritchie

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      @natecull imagine if a swathe of people who called themselves one thing, but acted as if another - for example were racist, or money focused, or self--serving (to the detriment of others), or or or looked back or even in the mirror and realised they should just love people and not judge them and all?

      Wouldn't that be nice? I'd read the news on that day.

      ps I'm not saying I'm without flaws, we all tend toward entropy & every day is a chance to DO something good. I gotta believe that.