@harc A state being bourgeois is not the only material condition of that state. The west in the 90s saw immense growth and stability, which meant that it could afford more rights to the groups that it had previously marginalized. We're now seeing that rolled back as said stability comes crashing down.
China, meanwhile, is quite new to stability, so we're only now seeing rights there increased. The USSR, one could argue, never really saw stability due to constant sanctions and external threat.
@harc almost like material conditions of countries on opposite ends of the globe or literal decades apart make a difference
@HiddenLayer555 I have more respect for you than to believe that you can't imagine how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion's theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife.
Jesus's whole cult was about, yes, salvation through his sacrifice. This is Christianity 101.
@HiddenLayer555 Which does not require following Jesus, yes. That is a comparatively novel implementation. But hey, congrats on being able to CTRL+F the bible for "hell" and then acting like you know anything about Christian theology.
@HiddenLayer555 Golly, look at all those verses that say you go to hell if you don't follow Jesus in specific.
@HiddenLayer555 sighhhh.
He’s not.
Liberation theology would disagree.
The idea that the guy who literally started...
No, he didn't. That didn't come about until Dante in the 13th century.
Have you ever actually read the bible? I have
No, you clearly have not lmao
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Who gives a shit. "Opium of the masses" doesn't mean what you think it means. Stop dividing the working class; militant atheism died on Reddit a decade ago for very good reason. These days, Marxists support religious freedom.
@King_Simp As far as I know, he didn't actually do anything wrong apart from being the as-of-yet-still-unsurpassed founder of the torture porn genre. Saw has nothing on 100 Days of Sodom — I say having only read descriptions of both because I am actually an utter wimp.
@☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ Yeah it's batshit insanity down there even six years later. Westerners glorify it because Kpop dweebs are the modern weeaboo — the RoK has very successfully exported its culture to the west — but people who actually live there, or even pay attention to the politics, know it's a shithole.
But people really hate them and are just begging for a regime change, we promise, let us do a regime change bro
@TrippyFocus Which is, again, extremely recent, and also fraught with contradiction among its voting populace. It has an amazing constitution, but it only barely squeezed through (and is still only that — a constitution).
Russia is not at all stable, nor is the rest of the Soviet bloc. It moved straight from the ossified and besieged socialism of the 70s and 80s into fascism, immediately embracing capitalism in crisis, and that's where it's remained.