You know why Christians think being gay is wrong?
They have a framework. Men and women are meant to reflect a symbolic structure of responsibility and union, as seen in the church and god's relationship to man. Procreation is very important. Gay relationships are a perversion 1/
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of the good order of things.
Christians believe in this framework, complete with terms and concepts that make no actual sense if you pay really close attention but are culturally discussed like real actual things, so much that it feels like an obvious, default way of life. 2/
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Guess what other group is developing a big symbolic framework with a bunch of terms and concepts that feel obvious (that they expect you to educate yourself to the 'correct' way) and default (that it's intensively normalized in the culture)? 3/
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The parallels between my cultish, evangelical homeschooled upbringing and the discourse I'm seeing going on in public mediums right now is chillingly similar. I am freaked the absolute fuck out. We're descending right back into the judgmental, intolerant shithole we came from. 4/
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And guess what - judgmental, intolerant shitholes *do not feel like that from the inside*. They feel good and virtuous. If you think 'no, this isn't a descent into a judgmental ignorant shithole because it's good and virtuous' then this only INCREASES HOW FREAKED OUT I FEEL
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And to be clear - there's lots of other discourse out there around topics I vehemently disagree with or find absolutely harmful, that are *not* engaging in this terrifying religiosity. This religiosity is a new, viral beast and it's taking over like early Christianity.
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I have a sense how this is correct, but I’ve been struggling to put my finger on the specific parallels. Like how Christianity has a concept of heresy and so does this discourse. Is there a good summary out there?
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To be clear I think 'the left' is too broad and there's large portions of the left that don't set off scary religion vibes. There's also portions of the right that *do* set off scary religion vibes.
It just so happens that right now the big 'un is left leaning.
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In “Homo Dues” Harari refers to this loosely as the religion of secular humanism. As a “survivor” of evangelical Christianity myself I recognize the dogma. I broadly support the goals but the ends never justify the means. There is a religious component that is unsettling.
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