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In reply to the discussion: We are headed towards a catastrophe... [View all]haele
(15,623 posts)Everyone will have to depend on God if they weren't already blessed with money and resources to begin with.
It's a f'ing Cargo Cult. But instead of being on an isolated island where everyone is already used to living on subsistence and personal skills, dealing with few resources and privation. We're an interdependent country where a good 90% of the population couldn't survive a week without depending on a large number of other people and organizations just to be able to get food. It ain't God supplying the grocery store.
Nor is it some "Big Man" in a big house with all the money giving individuals the resources they need to survive from a limitless pool for favors - and that's the bubble world Christian Nationalists are trying to make.
Nationalists believe Money and Property = God's Blessing. But they can't seem to understand you can't eat money. If there's no trust, sharing or fair, consistent community support, a Property Owner that needs a large group of someones to work to continue to make money will end up living in fear their work force will take the opportunity to rise up and take "their" stuff.
A community is critical for individual prosperity. And a diverse, equally valued community is critical for innovation and advancement.
If you want the new stuff that makes your life healthier, easier, and enriched, you need diversity and fair treatment. Otherwise, you get a small, constrained, isolated community that can easily be destroyed by just bad luck or natural catastrophes.