ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: January 29th, 2021
  • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from April 8th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - Blockade²English
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    1 month ago

    Das Fundament der irreligiösen Kritik ist: Der Mensch macht die Religion, die Religion macht nicht den Menschen. Und zwar ist die Religion das Selbstbewusstsein und das Selbstgefühl des Menschen, der sich selbst entweder noch nicht erworben, oder schon wieder verloren hat. Aber der Mensch, das ist kein abstraktes, außer der Welt hockendes Wesen. Der Mensch, das ist die Welt des Menschen, Staat, Societät. Dieser Staat, diese Societät produzieren die Religion, ein verkehrtes Weltbewusstsein, weil sie eine verkehrte Welt sind. Die Religion ist die allgemeine Theorie dieser Welt, ihr encyklopädisches Compendium, ihre Logik in populärer Form, ihr spiritualistischer Point-d’honneur, ihr Enthusiasmus, ihre moralische Sanktion, ihre feierliche Ergänzung, ihr allgemeiner Trost- und Rechtfertigungsgrund.

  • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from April 8th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - Blockade²English
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    1 month ago

    what do you think is something that is more well known in the World , then that the Catholic Church did bad things , and misappropriates funds and Burned Critics and has Childsexscandals ,etc. ?

    Like its Extremly well known in my opinion. Because Church is so very Central to western History , Development , Holidays , Realms of Councious , Colonialism , Witchbuning , Crusading , Calendar , City Development , Jesus , City Founding , Music … everywhere ! Yes there as well .

    Like its the Church. Its very Important. Yes ? it can be assumed people are informed. on a certain level about it.

    And the Pope - The Leader of the Church - of this very important thing - this central aspect of: the globals South , of Megachurches in Latin America , Of Africa and Asia . - (with many christian communities currently ravished by war and terror in Syria and Lebanon , with ancient Holysites beeing bombed) , he said something political.

    Things like that are newsworthy.

    Yes China had Tianamen Square! , yes in Russia People fell from windows , And yes Catholic church does “Removed” ,Burned witches and does Preach Water while Drinking wine.

    Yes.

    Panta rhei

  • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from April 8th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - Blockade²English
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    1 month ago

    Whether you should travel in the Mark, you ask — travel into the Mark?

    The answer to this question is not exactly easy. And yet it would not become me to evade it or even to say a outright “no.” So then: “yes.” But “yes” with conditions. Let me enumerate point by point what I consider indispensable. Whoever wants to travel in the Mark must first bring with him a love for “land and people,” or at least no prejudice. He must have the good will to find the good good, instead of killing it through carping comparisons. The traveler in the Mark must furthermore feel himself equipped with a finer kind of sense for his surrounding . There are coarse eyes that immediately demand a glacier or a sea-storm in order to be satisfied.

    These had better stay at home.

    But if you have now carefully weighed all these points, if you have, as the English say, "made your soul ready,” and if you have come to the conclusion: “I can venture it,” then venture it boldly.

    Venture it boldly!

    And you will not regret it. Peculiar joys and pleasures will accompany you. You will make discoveries, for wherever you go you will, from the tourist’s point of view, be entering “virgin land.” You will come upon monastery ruins of whose existence perhaps only the nearest town has a faint knowledge; in old village churches, whose crumbling shingle tower seems to speak only of poverty, you will find great wall-paintings or, in crypts without stairs, rich copper coffins with crucifixes and gilded coats of arms. You will cross battlefields, churchyards, heathen graves of which people know nothing anymore; and instead of guidebooks and commonplace histories, sagas and legends. Here and there even fragments of long-forgotten songs — will speak to you. But the best thing you will encounter will be the people themselves, provided you know how to find the right word for the “common man.” Do not disdain the straw sack beside the coachman; let him tell you about his house and farm, about his town or village, about his soldiering days or his wandering years, and his chatter will envelop you with the magic of what is natural and alive When you return home, you will not have heard anything learned by rote, as on the great tours where everything has its fixed price place and tariff. The man himself, however, will have opened up before you. And that, after all, remains the best.