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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That’s exactly what Protestantism did, except I would actually say it’s somewhat worse; It maintained a lot of the ideas of self-sacrifice, but divorced them entirely from their material and communal base, instead making self-sacrifice in and of itself righteous. Secular asceticism, done not out of an obligation to one’s community or even to serve a spiritual nourishment, but out of obligation to an invisible god that one often believes doesn’t even exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What sucks is there is plenty of good social change pushed for by the pre-protestant reformationists. groups like the Anabaptists