/anarcho/ - Anarchism Board

well not to call op or >>8110 ignorant or uneducated. but there's a long history of people like (just for example) jacques ellul and tolstoy and the like making the case that jesus was an anarchist.

not that this thread amounts to an atheist inviting other atheists to give an OPINION on one particular religion and it's place in relation to an extremely vague ideology.

but yeah that's what it looks like

anyway you've left out anarcho-islam and that's probably racist

Oh boy

You are poking at something important here but you arent quite there yet, and im too tired and out of it to do this coherently so we will have to go with the skinny:

The new testament isnt a religious book first and foremost, its a thinly veiled handbook for resistance against empire, and ultimately against the concept of earthly power in and of itself.

>And He made a scourge of cords, and drove the money-lenders out of the temple; "You have made my fathers house a den of robbers"

>It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

>Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword

>Jesus said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one…" The disciples said, "See, Lord, here are two swords." "That is enough," he replied.

(I guess jesus dual wielded..)

>He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to the captives and to set the oppressed free


Jesus, whether he existed or not, was the perfect revolutionary- what is written of him was clearly designed to empower and enable fellow men to rise up against their oppressors without compromising their humanity in the process.

Almost more importantly however, the new testament was a fundamental evolutionary step for human conciousness.

by cementing the monotheism of the jews, it opened the door for reason-

we were no longer the playthings of a myriad of cruel gods (i.e. forces beyond our control)

We were part of something bigger, the universe suddenly became beautifully coherent and it opened the door to seeing "god" as something more than an angry old man in a robe demanding foreskins and the like

the tenets of Jesus F. Christ are a fucking nightmare for all power structures, because they give every human being meaning, we are "created in the image of god"

The powers that be always wanted us to believe the universe is pure chaos, that there is no meaning to anything, all this parallel universe sperg is a prime example.

If that is the case, then they are completely justified in doing whatever they want to us, everything is permitted and nothing can be frowned upon.

Way she fuckin goes, deal with it.

The tenets of Jesus K. Christ offer a vehement and resounding NO to that sentiment, accompanied by an unspoken threat.


It seems to me that christianity opened the door for…"enlightened" atheism, which makes it somewhat amusing when the fedora crowd froths at the mouth over the sheer "backwardness" of it

I guess I can partially answer your question:

Any "true" christian is an anarchist to some extent