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I myself am from the USA but I really can't think of anything. I do know of some right-wingers from my old high school who liked leftist stuff but I can't think of what they are off the top of my head. Maybe Star Trek, does that count?

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[-] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

That's very true! My girlfriend's other queerplatonic partner is a Christian who respects LGBTQ and is pretty left-wing on a lot of talking points, and they actually don't believe in discrimination like the right does.

[-] shani66@ani.social -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not true at all. Despite what 'christians' like to say the Bible is a horrific book with insanely oppressive and cruel morals. Being christian, an actual christian, and left wing is impossible. Most progressive christians are either not progressive or following their own made up spirituality that they call christianity

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

You don't get to decide what Christianity is or who identifies with the term.

'The bible is bad' seems profoundly confused and perhaps more a ragequit of some novel protestant style 66 book idol worshiping.

[-] shani66@ani.social -2 points 5 days ago

I don't decide what a christian is, the doctrine of christianity does that. And guess what? The doctrine is clearly laid out in an insane book that you could go read right now.

I can't declare myself a bodhisattva if I'm a self centered hedonist because i just define it that way.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz -1 points 5 days ago

There is no 'doctrine of Christianity' and it's not clearly laid out in any insane book I'm aware of.

The Christian tradition is vast, wide and ancient.

[-] shani66@ani.social 1 points 5 days ago

If you do not believe in the bible, an insane book, you aren't christian. Period.

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Again, that's not really up to you. Saying "period" doesn't matter as it's easier to dismantle a monster of your making.

Maybe read some early stuff that never made the canons as you would an novel anime, may be easier as they carrier less weird baggage and are often just as good, if not better, than those that did. Harry Potter is the new virgin magus messiah touching death to save the world for the masses that don't want to go to masses, it's fine but it's far worse than the OG stuff imr.

I gather you are not aiming to, but you are playing the game and fervently evangelizing for some novel, likely US protestant strain of the Nicene machine, on the socials as the true Christianity and everything else as heresy. Consider not doing that.

Consider the dead Christians, the heretics, those that were tortured and burned or had their works condemned and names dragged though the mud for coming on 2000yrs now. Basildes was pushing some cool Christian memes long before 'believe in the bible' would go viral for example and they had to start burning Diatesserons by the hundreds, but this kinda stuff has always been there.

Calling the bible 'an insane book' makes me think you are not overly well versed here, at basic 'the bible' is a rather vast and varied collection of texts that have been in flux for millennia and how one works with these traditions is very much open to interpretation, and inspiration . The Tewahedo canon or the First New Testament might be worth a peek for a gentle intro.

Assuming you are somewhat familiar with the scriptures I suppose the big question is what did you expect when heading into, presumably modern re-imaginings in English, sacred histories, theology, philosophy and scripture from ~3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE? Is the entire period of literature insane in your reading or just the few scraps that made into the protestant canon that stand out, or.....?

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