Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn’t believe women should be allowed to vote.
Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, said during the interview with CNN that, “Women are the kind of people that people come out of.”
“The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls,” he continued.
In the CNN interview, Wilson also defended previous comments where he had said there was mutual affection between slaves and their masters. He also said that sodomy should be recriminalized. The Supreme Court invalidated sodomy laws in 2003.
Not entirely. There is a Christian movement called Quiverfull, which encourages families to have as many children as possible. That ignorant family of pedophiles and perverts that had the reality show were a perfect example.
To clarify, many large families are due to careless responsibility, but most are just religious freaks.
Also Mormons, though quite a few of them adopt which is confusing for me on a moral level. It’s bad when they breed but I also don’t want them propagating through conversion while also not wanting kids in the foster care system, due to their communities and general wealth on the better end Mormons are an improvement. Problem is Mormonism is still a demi-cult and they have a long and storied history of their members buying into pyramid schemes on the better end of cult dynamics or going batshit insane on the worse end.
IDK what my point is, I think I just wanted to bitch about Mormons again. Fuck Utah Mormons in particular as well. Also fuck Provo.
Mormonism has always been a cult. Absolutely no different from Scientology.
Or any other religious, actually.
That’s missing quite a bit of nuance when it comes to these things. Cults and cult dynamics are an entire field of historical and anthropological study that deserves the respect of nuance. While I’ll be the first to call the Mormons cultists saying all religions are cults kinda misses the nuance of high control religion (cults) vs low control religion (Universalists for example) wherein you increase the threat of one while decreasing the threat of the other for no gain.
While you can hold the opinion that all religions use cult dynamics for control something which I agree with, without the nuance base you just come across as an ass. For example plenty of folks see the Seventh Day Adventists as being just another flavor of semi bog standard Christianity right up until you point out that at least some of them practice shunning, also they keep tight social control over their members. The nuance and explanation is what solidifies their threat to those unaware.
I get what you are saying, but it’s more like there’s a cult spectrum. Most of the standard religions are somewhere in the middle, but there are those that tend to lean in one direction or another, from loose control to tight control.
But in the end, it’s still a person/organization trying to control a group to some extent, convincing them that an imaginary entity controls the entire universe, and only by having access to this person/organization, can you possibly hope to have that Entity’s omnipresent favor shine upon you. Otherwise, you are doomed, in this life, and beyond. That is the general take for nearly EVERY religion. Sounds pretty culty to me.