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So last week I watched a really excellent documentary Hail Satan?. It is about the formalization and efforts of The Satanic Temple and besides being fascinating really made me think about how being outwardly religious in politics is so powerful in the US. letterboxd.com/film/hail-satan/On twitter.com
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And I don't mean going around preaching, I mean that the progressive integration of the religious right into the formal structures of the political right has created all these neat legal loopholes that (mostly) Evangelicals take advantage of all the time...Permalink On twitter.com
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A big focus of the documentary is how The Satanic Temple exploits these loopholes the religious right has been building into our public square in order to force them to close said loopholes and it was great to see, but also made me think...Permalink On twitter.com
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They are doing a significant amount with relatively little, yet there are plenty of larger religious entities that are pretty fully aligned with progressive causes. Why don't they use that as a way to push said causes in politics in a religious way that exploits those loopholes?Permalink On twitter.com
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Like we talk about what the inverse of a Hobby Lobby case would be, but it mostly isn't done. There are, using examples I know, religiously based Jewish orgs like RAC that push political goals...Permalink On twitter.com
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But they support the goals b/c they are goals Jewish people hold, a collective approach, but not a religious one which would be to push social justice and political politics because those things *are* Jewish...Permalink On twitter.com
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What is the difference between being a Liberal Jewish Radical and being Radically Jewish and how should we embrace that second version of our religious practice when the rules of politics have changed to the point that religion is required to win change?Permalink On twitter.com
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Being Jewish means, doing good in the world, welcoming the other into our home, helping others, and supporting the cause of equality and justice. What happens when we realize that the structure of government and law contradicts how we are supposed to act as Jews?...Permalink On twitter.com
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A toxic version of Christianity is writing laws at the highest levels of our government and we have to come to terms with the fact that those laws in real ways impinge on our religious freedoms. You cannot be a righteous Jew in a country that imprisons immigrant children...Permalink On twitter.com
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Yet the people who write and support these toxic laws talk of 'Judeo-Christian' values and wear pins that entangle the flags of Israel and the USA. These zealots are speaking for us from a religious stance, how do we object except with religion as our springboard?Permalink On twitter.com
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I don't know? I understand that being on the left, to some degree, means understanding the separation of church and state as an ideal, and perhaps that is why liberal religious folks don't stand on their religion in the same way...Permalink On twitter.com
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But also there's a reality that religion is a major currency of American politics now and we will never be able to realize our ideals unless we're willing to spend that currency as prodigiously as the people who are using religion as an excuse for oppression.Permalink On twitter.com
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I'm not really at the point where I'm thinking of a solution yet, but trying to consider this question posed in the form of The Satanic Temple. What happens when our religious beliefs are fundamentally opposed by the actions of the state in support of toxic religious stances?Permalink On twitter.com
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I think I need to do some more research and maybe talk to a Rabbi or two, but I do think this is becoming a more urgent question for me personally: What is the difference between being a Jewish Radical and Radically Jewish?Permalink On twitter.com
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(Also: I'm no longer as plugged into young people dealing w/jewishness as I once was, but I think coming to terms with the concept of jewishness in opposition to aspects of both the US and Israel state while still supporting both will be vital to maintaining the community)Permalink On twitter.com
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