From Pirate Wires:
Honey, I killed the kids (respectfully)
A teacher on TikTok is going viral this week for her galaxy brain take that Incan child sacrifices weren’t really all that bad actually, because the people conducting these sacrifices “were kind about it” (verbatim quote). She says that because these sacrifices were often drugged up with coca leaves, the practice was pretty humane when you really think about it, adding that victims were “volunteers” and that those objecting to such practices are only doing so because they received a “white education.” That’s right, bigots — those little 7-year-olds wanted to be murdered as an offering to Pahtecatl the peyote god. Who are we to judge? In fact, if we want to truly honor the natives and shrug off our legacy of colonization, land acknowledgements are not enough: we must start brutally killing children again for rain. (Or — and hear me out — we should maybe just put every public school teacher on a watchlist)
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Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
Really enjoying C.S. Lewis's MERE CHRISTIANITY. Just plucked this section (p. 49 in my copy). For those of us who are secular, switch out a concept/term like "Satan" with whatever fits--human nature, etc. This is the hubris of my former faith, call it secular liberalism, or secular humanism.
"The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first--wanting to be the centre--wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race.... What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could 'be like gods'--could set up on their own as if they had created themselves--be their own masters--invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which ...
