The United States, a declining hegemon, refuses to accept an emerging multipolar order, instead choosing to engage in military threats and ideological attacks.
The examples I provided (Canada, Spain, ROK) more so demonstrate how the current administration is speeding up the fall of US hegemony rather than a full and uncritical endorsement of the country’s actions.
Hi Fan, regarding your original comment, the metaphor I use in this article is not limited to Christianity (the term “Great Satan/Shaytan” itself comes from Iran’s Khomenei), and I never suggested that Christians are “never wrong” or should not be blamed in the context of the US issue. If you look through my old posts, you can see that I’ve condemned so-called “Christians” on many occasions, from the Crusaders to the Puritans to modern MAGA.
Apologies for the aggressiveness, but I'm calling you out on the challenge you say you wanted your baptism to become.
In the post above, you said that you "never suggested that Christians are "never wrong" or should not be blamed..."
Yet you wrote
"Protestant Christianity has been mutilated, twisted, and malformed,"
Here you suggest Protestant xtianity is "never wrong". How is that? It is because, when protestant xtianity is wrong, it is because it is "mutilated" or "twisted" or "malformed".
Protestant xtianity is, implied by you, inherently good. And, even when there is evidence it is not, it is thereforee not Protestant xtianity.
If you do, as you imply in the post above I'm responding to, believe that Christians should be blamed in the context of the "US issue", you would also believe that Christians should be blamed in the context of Xtianity's role in modern and historical imperialism. Yet, that is absent from the limited times I read of you mentioning religion. Which is this post and the post about you going to church with the Caribbean lady.
Even in that above post, you put the word "Christians" in quotations. AGAIN, you imply that Christians are "never wrong". How? By putting "Christian" in quotations, you imply that when actual Christians are wrong, they are "Christian" (i.e. they are not real chrstians).
I am interested in your response if I call you out on your baptism speech and ideals. You said you wanted your "baptism" to be a challenge. You quoted Isaiah 1:16-17.
At a minimum, you should, at least to yourself, I don't care if you reply, acknowledge to yourself that what you claimed is not 100 per cent true. You did and you do imply that Chrisitanity is "not wrong". And that is evident from the two examples I provided. Namely, the use of "Christians" in quotations and your claim of what I wrote about Protestant Xtianity.
Finally, I'll end with irony. Martin Luther objected against Catholicism. And Protestants became beliefs about actions, not just beliefs. Yet you, as presumably a protestant (???), have rejected the actual actions of Christians. Or rather, you implicitly deny that protestant xtians should be judged on their actions. Despite how judgement based on actions is fundamentally or originally what Martin Luther argued. Implicit in your writing is that what is loosely "being wrong" is, by your definition, not "Christian" and "not Protestant".
From the Crusades, to the Puritians to modern MAGA, in your own words, Christians have revealed who they are. It is wrong for you to reject Christians who do wrong by manipulation of language with the use of "so-called Christians". Because you wrote about your personal baptism, I would challenge you to "Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.". If other Christians do wrong, it is not for you to "wash" xtianity by denying that they are xtians. It would be for you to "seek justice" by challenging them "as Christians".
You have a bias, and that bias is that when Christians do wrong, then they are "so called Christians". When Christianity holds negative beliefs, then it is a bastardization of Christianity. That does not sound like what you ***claim*** what you want your baptism to be about. And, to be honest, can we really say that you are any different from any other Christian???
The paragraphs about canada and spain are ill informed.
Perhaps the author forgets carney co.es from goldman sachs and the bank of canada and the bank of england.
Terrible
The examples I provided (Canada, Spain, ROK) more so demonstrate how the current administration is speeding up the fall of US hegemony rather than a full and uncritical endorsement of the country’s actions.
It just feels like lazy writing. The canada one is straight misinformation.
Hi Fan, regarding your original comment, the metaphor I use in this article is not limited to Christianity (the term “Great Satan/Shaytan” itself comes from Iran’s Khomenei), and I never suggested that Christians are “never wrong” or should not be blamed in the context of the US issue. If you look through my old posts, you can see that I’ve condemned so-called “Christians” on many occasions, from the Crusaders to the Puritans to modern MAGA.
Hi Jee-hoon,
I haven't read too many of your posts. But I did just read this one: https://voiceoftheproletariat.substack.com/p/the-role-of-religion-in-politics
Apologies for the aggressiveness, but I'm calling you out on the challenge you say you wanted your baptism to become.
In the post above, you said that you "never suggested that Christians are "never wrong" or should not be blamed..."
Yet you wrote
"Protestant Christianity has been mutilated, twisted, and malformed,"
Here you suggest Protestant xtianity is "never wrong". How is that? It is because, when protestant xtianity is wrong, it is because it is "mutilated" or "twisted" or "malformed".
Protestant xtianity is, implied by you, inherently good. And, even when there is evidence it is not, it is thereforee not Protestant xtianity.
If you do, as you imply in the post above I'm responding to, believe that Christians should be blamed in the context of the "US issue", you would also believe that Christians should be blamed in the context of Xtianity's role in modern and historical imperialism. Yet, that is absent from the limited times I read of you mentioning religion. Which is this post and the post about you going to church with the Caribbean lady.
Even in that above post, you put the word "Christians" in quotations. AGAIN, you imply that Christians are "never wrong". How? By putting "Christian" in quotations, you imply that when actual Christians are wrong, they are "Christian" (i.e. they are not real chrstians).
I am interested in your response if I call you out on your baptism speech and ideals. You said you wanted your "baptism" to be a challenge. You quoted Isaiah 1:16-17.
At a minimum, you should, at least to yourself, I don't care if you reply, acknowledge to yourself that what you claimed is not 100 per cent true. You did and you do imply that Chrisitanity is "not wrong". And that is evident from the two examples I provided. Namely, the use of "Christians" in quotations and your claim of what I wrote about Protestant Xtianity.
Finally, I'll end with irony. Martin Luther objected against Catholicism. And Protestants became beliefs about actions, not just beliefs. Yet you, as presumably a protestant (???), have rejected the actual actions of Christians. Or rather, you implicitly deny that protestant xtians should be judged on their actions. Despite how judgement based on actions is fundamentally or originally what Martin Luther argued. Implicit in your writing is that what is loosely "being wrong" is, by your definition, not "Christian" and "not Protestant".
From the Crusades, to the Puritians to modern MAGA, in your own words, Christians have revealed who they are. It is wrong for you to reject Christians who do wrong by manipulation of language with the use of "so-called Christians". Because you wrote about your personal baptism, I would challenge you to "Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.". If other Christians do wrong, it is not for you to "wash" xtianity by denying that they are xtians. It would be for you to "seek justice" by challenging them "as Christians".
You have a bias, and that bias is that when Christians do wrong, then they are "so called Christians". When Christianity holds negative beliefs, then it is a bastardization of Christianity. That does not sound like what you ***claim*** what you want your baptism to be about. And, to be honest, can we really say that you are any different from any other Christian???