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Christianity is functionally a dead religion. There are a few people who still are true believers and have faith but the majority are either cultural Christians or people who only believe with their minds not their hearts. Just like the Greco-Roman pagans of old they cling to the traditional outside forms but have lost the soul of it. This can be proven by the fact that pretty much anywhere in former Christendom you can blaspheme Jesus or the Virgin Mary without consequences. You can even burn down a church or converted into a gay disco without the locals really caring. Just like the author of this book most likely proclaimed Christians real religion is revealed in what they actually care about and fight for.

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Dead Idols Edition

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>>17486980
Collectivism died in the 60's and with it the hopes of an impactful and meaningful social revolution. The 60's counterculture was probably the last thing we'll have to an organic yet united movement that shifted the axioms of society.
By the 70's, atomization set in and youth of the former "counterculture" was forced to settle into the rat race of the real world cemented by yours truly, the boomers. They were forced to hold their contrarian beliefs and anti-establishment desires to rebel internally, which led to an angry and self-loathing malaise. Gen X still feels that strongly, which is why Fight Club is the best movie when it comes to understanding young men of that era who wanted to fight the system but were forced to do so underground, both literally and figuratively.
Watch Adam Curtis' documentary Hypernormalisation. Free on Youtube and he discusses how the counterculture of the 60's and 70's were completely different. Today a counterculture built from the ground up like the boomers tried is impossible (everything on the internet exists within the system and even IRL events are usually spectacle. When SHTF eventually maybe that'll change.

I just released my first book, and I have no idea how to promote it. When people put stuff out, they think it'll magically find its way into people's hands, but that's just not the case.

>>9997609
>fetishizes skill
Don't literally all worthwhile pursuits do this?
>art fetishizes skill in painting
>literature fetishizes skill in writing
>sports fetishizes skill
Is this seriously just a cop out argument for talentless hacks to justify their existence?