Lot of people on here seem to assume that the US military is basically as bad as US police when it comes to “being totally dominated by frothing MAGA freaks.”
This is absolutely NOT the case.
people forget that the military specifically targets poor kids for recruitment, using benefits/stability as a big draw, and therefore you have a lot of people in the military who would not otherwise choose to be there
and of course there are people who will moralize that decision by saying that folks don’t have a right to live comfortably through that route, but I just also don’t believe that folks born into situations they cannot control should be forced to suffer to ensure their morality remains pure
yeah there’s quite a bit of “leftism” that doesn’t seem to be built on the idea of community, and I don’t like that at all! and I think that’s why fuck ups are deemed “unacceptable” by some
like i have many bad things to say about organized church and the catholic church in specific but the idea that sin is universal and that concrete actions can redeem it is one that is often lost in leftist spaces imo
To an extent, I think we're most like the chaotic era in the early reformation when people just kept bursting into churches waving a Bible and claiming to have found something that reversed everything they had been doing. It's not the doctrine itself, it's the anarchism of it.
Like, with the evaporation of Papal authority, the Anglicans were left trying to hold onto their position with a tradition which suddenly was found to be mutable. Plus they had accidentally gotten everyone reading the Bible, which will make you insane if you're not careful.
So think less about the particular theories of Calvinist theology, and more about the era that spawned Quakers, Ranters, Muggletonians, Fifth Monarchists, puritans, Congregationalists, Diggers, Levelers, and god knows who else.
