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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

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Unrelated to world building but encapsulating all the above, the very concept of religion—what most people typically conceptualize when they think of this word (won’t say all bc I don’t exist in anyone’s head but my own, but this concept of “religion” is pervasive globally due in large part to Christian missionary activity)—

is a conservative, Victorian, white, academic framework, and when we use the term “religion” to discuss any spiritual practice or experience, we are casting that framework and colonizing unique cultural perspectives and experiences with white Victorian academic principles in order to discuss it. This was done specifically to be able to analyze different beliefs, practices, rituals, experiences, and meanings, on those terms and as such, is a domineering and oppressive way to discuss spirituality, belief, and frameworks of reality outside of white Victorian academic principles.

@learnedfoote on X generously shares and discusses his research on this.

the thing folks living in Christian dominant cultures gotta realize is that even if you’re not Christian, your basic understanding of religion and spirituality and morality is still being filtered through a Christian lens. your very concept of what religion is and does is filtered through that lens.

Modern Colonization

You turn our castles into Capitalistic towers

You turn our language into cheap imitations

You turn our communities into forgotten laments

You turn our future into phantasmal dreams

This is the game you have played for generations upon generations

Destroying lands and desecrating cultures all in the name of your conquest of vanity

You oppressor; you colonizer

How long will you stand in envy

Of our heritage

Of our legacy

Of our culture

Of our skin color

Of our existence?

Never in your anger and your spite shall you ever obtain even a fraction of the beauty Mother Nature has gifted upon us

Though you may burn at your self-appointed stake, you shall never possess the eyes of a victim

We are the future you fear

We are th rebels you fail to silence

We are the Capital you shall never obtain.