That's the thing though, all religions are control schemes. Christianity especially. It has nothing to do with being moral and everything to do with being obedient to a particular authority. The core of the faith is authoritarianism, not any branch of morality.
And something to hold the TV at a reasonable viewing angle from a comfy seated position.
This is one of the extremely few cases where I'm not sure if it's Capitalism made it worse or there was just always some proportion of parents who were thing abhorrent.
- I'm not sure of cases of 'aEsThEtIc' being forced on children of times past, though it may more simply have been that their parent's was the only option not just for reasons of authoritarianism.
- Not parenting one's children and instead leaving them to 'thing of the day/age' isn't exactly new. I recall stories of children being expelled from the home and left unsupervised until they were expected to come home of their own volition at the end of the day.
- Without knowing what you mean by 'alarming parenting advice' I can't really comment on that but what immediately comes to mind is religious commands to murder children who were insufficiently deferential to their parents.
- Additionally to murder beatings were also prescribed for children in the books of vile darkness.
- This one might actually be some abhorrence unique to capitalism.
Wow, that priest is astoundingly honest. It's never about proving "heretics" wrong, for the simple reason that they can't in most situations. The mass-murdering institutions only care about sufficiently large massacres that there's no-one left alive who would question them.
Stop the country, no stop the fucking hemisphere, I want to get off.
Honestly, if they are both that dense to believe that a well-known and well established astronomical phenomena is heralding the end of the world as it hasn't for millennia of this happening and that insulting that you would only give a major tip when you believed that the recipient wouldn't be able to enjoy it then they most assuredly deserved the loss.
Really reminds me of the Association of German National Jews and their sad decision to endorse Adolf Hitler. We're frequently presented with the assertion that people, in-general, are rational when they evidentially are not.
Think about it like this: Stress is bad for you. It degrades your ability to do things effectively and degrades your physical and mental health if it's too consistent. Therefore removing stress is a necessary and important activity. Do what you enjoy, at least sometimes.
The world 'legal' is holding up so much we might as well call it Atlas here.
Yep, I get this problem. Doesn't help that I sometimes speak with the cadence of Darth Vader which makes it much easier for NTs to interrupt me thinking that I've stopped talking.
This is still late-stage capitalism. Capitalism has persisted in opposition to effectively all Human well-being for centuries, since at-least the 1700s. So, it was still very much Late-Stage Capitalism in the 1940s. That we have yet to put this vile system out of all our misery yet doesn't modify which stage it's been stuck in for X period of time.
Further it's been Imperialism in the Colonial or Neo-Colonial style for how long now? Four centuries? Five?
The issue is that they don't care. They don't care if the Bible says anything at all about the subject their on about or even if it contradicts them. What the Bible actually says is irrelevant to them, it's only what their ~~glorious leaders~~ pastors say it says matters.
The root of faith is authoritarianism, not any branch of morality or reverence or regard for history or their mythology.