#and it was like damn imagine if there was a religious organisation involved in british colonialism
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nem0c · 6 days ago
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Preacher roundup: I think every religious denomination in this city should be compelled to send preachers to the public square. I'm tired of seeing the pentecostals (two flavours: Jesus is cumming in me right now and you are going to hell right now for being a sodomite), though they win points for being enterprising enough to start bringing a punjabi interpreter. Sick of seeing the methodists (elderly, self-flagellating. One can only listen to so many minutes of 'Lord, I am but a worm trodden beneath your heel' without responding 'that's your issue, man'). The telugu church can stay because I'm a sucker for novelty and if the peoples of south india have to suffer evangelical preachers it's only right we should too. The mainline sunnis can stay because their imam actually understands his own religion and is capable of intelligent answers to questions from the audience (though, of course, I am and will remain guilty of Shirk).
But we have Ismailis here! Hare Krishnas! Quakers! Honest-to-god Unitarian Universalists! Chinese Mormons! Bahai! That one Buddhist strand started by a charismatic pederast (Triratna? Triratna)! I want them front-and-centre on a Saturday giving lectures on the future-past perennial universal faith followed by 30 people.
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