augustf’s Twitter Archive

This was a depressing but necessary read. It explains much of what I've seen in disciples of the left and right, who will sacrifice any ideal, endure any act, so long as it works for their civic religion: nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-americas-new-religions.html
Permalink On twitter.com 2018 Dec 11 Mood -2 🙁

…in reply to @augustf
"Their leaders have turned Christianity into a political and social identity, not a lived faith...They have tribalized a religion explicitly built by Jesus as anti-tribal. They have turned to idols — including their blasphemous belief in America as God’s chosen country."
Permalink On twitter.com 2018 Dec 11 Mood +2 🙂

…in reply to @augustf
"And this is how they threaten liberal democracy. They do not believe in the primacy of the individual, they believe the ends justify the means, they do not allow for doubt or reason, and their religious politics can brook no compromise."
Permalink On twitter.com 2018 Dec 11 Mood -5 🙁

…in reply to @augustf
"And social-justice ideology does everything a religion should. It offers an account ...that human life and society and any kind of truth must be seen entirely as a function of social power structures, in which groups have spent all of human existence oppressing other groups."
On twitter.com 2018 Dec 11 Mood +2 🙂