You sound Christian. Try thinking around your brainwashing and you will see it’s all a tool to make you feel good about your in group to the point they can do no wrong. Same with Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, any and all of them.
They make you feel powerful via strength in numbers, following shallow rules that, to be fair, can keep you healthy (Halal and Kosher are mostly about preventing food poisoning and/or unhealthy eating habits), etc
And then they say “give all your material value to us! For the cause!” or else sky daddy is going to smite you! Or punish you for ETERNITY!
You must do what this human man said a god says to do or else the god will torture you endlessly sums up like 99% of all organized religions.
Pretty fucking sus.
khepri@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe he’s referring to the fact that McNamara, the architect of this and all-around terrible person, was an Elder in his Presbyterian church during the time he was also conceiving and running this program. IDK, that’s the first direct connection I could find. That, and a lot of this was under Kennedy, who was famously and publicly and proudly the first Catholic president. So I agree it’s not a great look for Kennedy in terms of his Catholicism being a major part of his identity, to have allowed his SecDef to run this program on “the least among us” if you will.