re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From Mr. Johnson’s account of this thread at the top:

Holy crap. Copeland is directly arguing in this clip that you should be able to preach politics from the pulpit.

Religion poisons everything.

Religion has always been inherently political. At least within western traditions. The Hebrew texts/Old Testament was long on laws for the society that wrote it. Despite the retconning post crucifixion, Jesus was clearly preaching about creating a kingdom on earth. And Mohammed did actually create a government. Go back further, and the fusion of religion and politics was fairly overt among the Romans and Greek empires (though polytheism, by its nature was more accommodating of different faith traditions, from what I’ve read). Following the fall of the Romans, the rise of the Roman Catholic Church and then the protestant reformation along with the creation of state churches throughout Europe.