• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    7 days ago

    It’s not necessarily a higher role, just a different one. It honestly pays a bigger role for less conservative Christians, as they need to wrestle something of value from the social control and authoritarianism of conservative understandings.

    • froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, true, wiith a remark that Christianity was not an institution in the very beginning. There were self-organized rebellious group of people without strict hierarchy. Then as it became more popular, tyrants turned it on their side to support existing world order. A classic story