shinshige
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I am a 40-something from SLC, UT. Living life and loving it.
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I'm a full-on atheist but: Protestantism. It was intended as a reaction to the Catholic Church's excesses and corruption, contributed to people having access to their religion's central text in a language they ubderstood and wrested power from the clergy. Now there are American mega churches and rich televangelists making money hand over fist from the gullible masses, Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses shielding sexual abusers among their ranks and blaming and shunning the victims much like paedophile catholic priests are shielded by the church. This is in addition to the many attempts at theocratic states and horribly abusive societies birthed by the reformation. It was intended to be a cure for corruption and the gross accumulation of temporal power and ended up just as corrupted and power hungry. To be clear, in my opinion, all religions are dangerous and an abuser's wet dream but this is a very obvious example of a full-circle revolution.
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I worked at a petrol station when I was 16. One time we were robbed and a colleague was forced to empty the cash register at gunpoint. They took bout 3000€ cash and about 5000€ worth in cigarettes and tobacco. Our boss expected the heavily traumatized colleague to pay back the whole value that was stolen, because "he could have just refused to give them anything". He obviously couldn't do that and refused to work for free for 4 months, so he was fired. He was a single dad with 6 months old twins. All of us 7 colleagues quit our jobs there immediately.JeSuisUnFennec reply
I'm a full-on atheist but: Protestantism. It was intended as a reaction to the Catholic Church's excesses and corruption, contributed to people having access to their religion's central text in a language they ubderstood and wrested power from the clergy. Now there are American mega churches and rich televangelists making money hand over fist from the gullible masses, Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses shielding sexual abusers among their ranks and blaming and shunning the victims much like paedophile catholic priests are shielded by the church. This is in addition to the many attempts at theocratic states and horribly abusive societies birthed by the reformation. It was intended to be a cure for corruption and the gross accumulation of temporal power and ended up just as corrupted and power hungry. To be clear, in my opinion, all religions are dangerous and an abuser's wet dream but this is a very obvious example of a full-circle revolution.Limp-Sundae5177 reply
I worked at a petrol station when I was 16. One time we were robbed and a colleague was forced to empty the cash register at gunpoint. They took bout 3000€ cash and about 5000€ worth in cigarettes and tobacco. Our boss expected the heavily traumatized colleague to pay back the whole value that was stolen, because "he could have just refused to give them anything". He obviously couldn't do that and refused to work for free for 4 months, so he was fired. He was a single dad with 6 months old twins. All of us 7 colleagues quit our jobs there immediately.
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I'm a full-on atheist but: Protestantism. It was intended as a reaction to the Catholic Church's excesses and corruption, contributed to people having access to their religion's central text in a language they ubderstood and wrested power from the clergy. Now there are American mega churches and rich televangelists making money hand over fist from the gullible masses, Amish and Jehovah's Witnesses shielding sexual abusers among their ranks and blaming and shunning the victims much like paedophile catholic priests are shielded by the church. This is in addition to the many attempts at theocratic states and horribly abusive societies birthed by the reformation. It was intended to be a cure for corruption and the gross accumulation of temporal power and ended up just as corrupted and power hungry. To be clear, in my opinion, all religions are dangerous and an abuser's wet dream but this is a very obvious example of a full-circle revolution.Limp-Sundae5177 reply
I worked at a petrol station when I was 16. One time we were robbed and a colleague was forced to empty the cash register at gunpoint. They took bout 3000€ cash and about 5000€ worth in cigarettes and tobacco. Our boss expected the heavily traumatized colleague to pay back the whole value that was stolen, because "he could have just refused to give them anything". He obviously couldn't do that and refused to work for free for 4 months, so he was fired. He was a single dad with 6 months old twins. All of us 7 colleagues quit our jobs there immediately. shinshige • upvoted 6 items 7 months ago
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