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Midnight Writer

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3. Religion will thrive as long as it serves the needs of the American oligarchs.

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 08:51 PM

Oct 2019

Largely what we see today are "corporate religions". Opiates of the people, who will wait for Heaven to receive their rewards.

You don't see the Falwells, the Grahams, the Swaggarts, the Osteens, et al, serving the poor, the sick, the downtrodden.

You see them flying their private jets to soirees with the rich, rubbing elbows with the powerful, hobnobbing with the American Royalty.

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The Overstated Collapse of American Christianity [View all] guillaumeb Oct 2019 OP

ugh. Douthat is horrible. a "bothsideserist" NRaleighLiberal Oct 2019 #1

No, he's a hardcore Catholic. And Republican, for that matter. muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #33

A Downward Spiral Cartoonist Oct 2019 #2

How many fingers? guillaumeb Oct 2019 #8

I use all my fingers Cartoonist Oct 2019 #10

I use most of my fingers when playing guitar. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #11

I'm getting old Cartoonist Oct 2019 #12

True. And Word is so much easier than was the typewriter. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #15

Religion will thrive as long as it serves the needs of the American oligarchs. Midnight Writer Oct 2019 #3

You keep clinging to whatever hope you can, g. trotsky Oct 2019 #4

Oh holy shit, I didn't even notice. trotsky Oct 2019 #5

Channeling a wingnut zealot who is a homophobic racist Major Nikon Oct 2019 #13

The g-man sure has a long, sordid history of finding deplorables to echo here. trotsky Oct 2019 #17

I'm telling you Trotsky, he posts shit like this on purpose. Mariana Oct 2019 #22

Hard to believe he can enjoy being humiliated like this over and over. trotsky Oct 2019 #25

The author of that is a reactionary voice who has lost MineralMan Oct 2019 #6

Delusion is thinking an opinion is reality. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #9

You promoted a right-wing bigot's work, g. trotsky Oct 2019 #16

Non-responsive reply. MineralMan Oct 2019 #18

I understand your need to feel that way. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #20

What a silly thing to say... MineralMan Oct 2019 #21

If you think a homophobic racist is irrelevant, you must be delusional Major Nikon Oct 2019 #14

Well, see...hmm... MineralMan Oct 2019 #19

On GD a column by Douthat edhopper Oct 2019 #7

Ross Douthat is Republican fuckstick. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #23

In all fairness this trainwreck was not sourced from religion news service. Voltaire2 Oct 2019 #24

Why are you posting True Blue American Oct 2019 #26

The empty churches in Ohio are astounding. erlewyne Oct 2019 #27

I pass 3 Churches True Blue American Oct 2019 #30

Lebanon, eh? Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #31

Family there. True Blue American Oct 2019 #32

Mineral Man EmeraldCoaster Oct 2019 #28

MM exposes his own opinions. guillaumeb Oct 2019 #29

And yet, when we look at figures, we see there was no 'cycle'; it's a steady decline muriel_volestrangler Oct 2019 #34