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John Brown was a deep Christian too, so I don't know maybe there is something to it after all.
For anyone who is interested in knowing if she ever ended up shooting a fascist, here's the relevant paragraph from Wikipedia:
As she was extremely nearsighted, Weil was a very poor shot. Her comrades tried to avoid taking her on missions, though she did sometimes insist. Her only direct participation in combat was to shoot with her rifle at a bomber during an air raid; in a second raid, she tried to operate the group's heavy machine gun, but her comrades prevented her, as they thought it would be best for someone less clumsy and near-sighted to use the weapon. After being with the group for a few weeks, she burnt herself over a cooking fire.
To be fair, taking out a fascist is the key to a happy afterlife
The Psalms are beautiful.
Must have been that psalm about smashing your enemies babies' heads against the rocks that sold her.
Anarchism should be communism + Christianity.
Except the whole no gods thing
I don't think atheism is central to anarchism. Opposition to religion (in its institutional and hierarchical form) is, but not belief in a higher being per se.
Anarchism can make Christianity non-authoritarian, and Christianity can teach anarchism how to be spiritual. Of course nor anarchism nor Christianity need each other, but I like how they complete each other.
You can certainly hamfist Christianity into supporting whatever political opinion you want, as is Christian tradition.
Generally I don't like supernatural beliefs and the idea of a god makes me throw up but you do you.
Not to mention quakers often gave communists spaces to organise in and hold meetings.
There have been Christian anarchists. Jacques Ellul comes to mind. His book on propaganda is pretty good.
Yeah I like him, even if he had bad stances on some subjects (like Israel or abortion). He's too much on the evangelical side to me, even if he was not an actual evangelical. But was right on sooooo much subjects!
I never got in to deep on his personal stances on certain issues, I thought the book propaganda was good though. I think lots of thinkers of his time had bad stances on Isreal though.
What religion were the fascists?
That's actually a fairly complicated answer, regarding the Spanish Civil War. To my (very weak) understanding the Nationalists weren't strictly Christians, but were definitely supported by several different Christian factions which were vying for power. It's probably a lot more nuanced than that, and I'm just a stupid American with basically zero real knowledge of the Spanish Civil War.
Also, Christian anarchists actually aren't that unusual. Chris Hedges, for example, is a modern one. If I recall correctly, it's the argument that the only real Kingdom is the Kingdom of Heaven, and as such, human society should be completely non-hierarchical because we're all sinners. Which like, I don't believe in it, but I can vibe with that.
So Christians vs Christians, got it.
We’re all ~~sinners~~ schmucks ✅
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