Agnostic. I thought the "religious far-right" was kind of creepy when it became a thing politically, but the "tolerant and loving left" as it has veered hard Marxist is... I honestly can't find a better description than degenerate and evil at this point.
To that point, I'd say the right has cleaned up its act. They sort of had to. We had the religious nuts talking about rock or rap being satanic. Rap isn't my thing, but that's some bullshit to say it's satanic. Conservatives used to say that video games led to violence. When I was a kid, the right said some stupid shit.
But I think the pendulum has swung. The right cleaned up while the left has grown more intolerant. The right polices its side. The left lets in anyone who is against the Constitution, against Trump, against capitalism, and against America. They are only unified in their hate of us.
The moral panic over Satanism in the 80s played a large part in turning me off of right wing politics for much of my early life. I was a big time metal head back then, played guitar in a couple bands, long hair, all that. When I saw Judas Priest get dragged into court so prosecutors could play their records backwards as evidence, I was in utter disbelief. It just snowballed from there. He-Man is sending subliminal messages to children and should be banned? Give me a break. Not knowing much about politics at the time, I aligned myself with the left to simply get as far away from that nutty shit as I could.
Man what I would give to trade that moral panic for this one. That was nothing compared to this.
Being real here, I disagree that the 'moral panic' was full of baloney, they were in fact mostly correct in their analysis, but the fact that people didn't understand says more about the state of society and its lack of faith than anything else.
I grew up non-religious and was essentially raised by public education, television, video games, and the internet. For the first quarter of my life I was a nihilist (atheist, then agnost, regardless: nihilist). I've dumped an ungodly amount of time into games like Runescape and World of Warcraft and never felt it was a problem. It was and is a problem. At a fundamental level these activities are escapism into fantasy which disconnects one from properly interacting and learning about the world.
I am no longer a nihilist. "The truth that there is no truth" is a baloney contradictory lie. At a spiritual level this sort of stuff, this escapism, is the arrogant statement that "God's creation is not good enough, man's creations are better." Additionally, the vast majority of this stuff is not edifying, inspiring one towards virtue, quite the opposite. It is thus quite possible indeed to see the fingers of Satan therein. Most are blind to this unfortunately.
Agnostic. I thought the "religious far-right" was kind of creepy when it became a thing politically, but the "tolerant and loving left" as it has veered hard Marxist is... I honestly can't find a better description than degenerate and evil at this point.
To that point, I'd say the right has cleaned up its act. They sort of had to. We had the religious nuts talking about rock or rap being satanic. Rap isn't my thing, but that's some bullshit to say it's satanic. Conservatives used to say that video games led to violence. When I was a kid, the right said some stupid shit.
But I think the pendulum has swung. The right cleaned up while the left has grown more intolerant. The right polices its side. The left lets in anyone who is against the Constitution, against Trump, against capitalism, and against America. They are only unified in their hate of us.
The moral panic over Satanism in the 80s played a large part in turning me off of right wing politics for much of my early life. I was a big time metal head back then, played guitar in a couple bands, long hair, all that. When I saw Judas Priest get dragged into court so prosecutors could play their records backwards as evidence, I was in utter disbelief. It just snowballed from there. He-Man is sending subliminal messages to children and should be banned? Give me a break. Not knowing much about politics at the time, I aligned myself with the left to simply get as far away from that nutty shit as I could.
Man what I would give to trade that moral panic for this one. That was nothing compared to this.
Being real here, I disagree that the 'moral panic' was full of baloney, they were in fact mostly correct in their analysis, but the fact that people didn't understand says more about the state of society and its lack of faith than anything else.
I grew up non-religious and was essentially raised by public education, television, video games, and the internet. For the first quarter of my life I was a nihilist (atheist, then agnost, regardless: nihilist). I've dumped an ungodly amount of time into games like Runescape and World of Warcraft and never felt it was a problem. It was and is a problem. At a fundamental level these activities are escapism into fantasy which disconnects one from properly interacting and learning about the world.
I am no longer a nihilist. "The truth that there is no truth" is a baloney contradictory lie. At a spiritual level this sort of stuff, this escapism, is the arrogant statement that "God's creation is not good enough, man's creations are better." Additionally, the vast majority of this stuff is not edifying, inspiring one towards virtue, quite the opposite. It is thus quite possible indeed to see the fingers of Satan therein. Most are blind to this unfortunately.