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I like football as much as the next fan, but the NFL marries corporate America, the military, and Christianity into a new form of anti-pagan nation-worship heretofore unseen.
The national anthem doesn't replace the Lord's Prayer as much as stand in for it. Let's all bow down to our "heroes."
I find it revolting.
Storm1752
Level 8
Nov 26, 2019
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Religion's business model requires creating fiercly brand-loyal customers. If corporate america could get away with attach their products to a religion they would.
MakeItGood
Level 7
Nov 25, 2019
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"Everybody knows the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over, everybody knows the good guys lost...." --L. Cohen
TomMcGiverin
Level 8
Nov 25, 2019
1
That and the Red Scare, for which the Gov embraced Christianity because the Soviets did not embrace religion. So it wound up on the money, replacing the pledge, and in statuary all over the land.
Davesnothere
Level 7
Nov 25, 2019
3
Yeah, they really did try toi equate religion and capitalism, just because the Russians were anti-religion. Anyone who has read the bible knows though that Jesus taught a form of socialism... at least according to the "gospels" that made the final edit.
Yes, I would address it as the wealthy and their corporations invented Christian America along with their family values methodologies.
They have used religion and government to suppress individuals, women, and any form of groups or organizations whose only crime was waning collective bargining for liveable reasonable standards of living!!!
This has been a Obstructionist republican slow moving orchestrated coup D'tat since the New Deal, before that, it was Teddy Roosevelt and his Antitrust laws and regulations that the Fascist republican have demonolished along with the conservative Members of the Democratic Party!!!
Al the major industrialist and the vast majority of the wealthy supported fascism, then used fascism to increase their wealth and power by supplying and supporting communism then by corrupting by fighting it profiting from both ends and sides!!!
of-the-mountain
Level 9
Nov 25, 2019
3
Well stated, you should comment more often.
Marx warned about this long ago, that religion was a tool used by capitalists to divide the masses.
TomMcGiverin
Level 8
Nov 25, 2019
4
Religion is a tool for just about anything you can imagine using it for.
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