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Has Christianity REALLY Progressed? | Taylor SH & Luxander
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January 26, 2026
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Dominic—a self-identified communist Christian—attempts to defend religion's overall positive impact on society while acknowledging its evils. He argues that practitioners and God mutually influence each other, creating both liberatory and oppressive versions of faith. When challenged on Christian nationalism's current harm, Dominic takes an academic approach, citing historical examples and Marxist theory to argue that modern conservatism is qualitatively different from past iterations, even if not better. The conversation becomes tense as Taylor pushes back on the idea that we've "progressed," pointing to Trump-era Christian nationalism's increasingly extreme positions like denying women's voting rights and open Nazi sympathy among young Republicans. Dominic maintains his dialectical materialist perspective that progress simply means "moving forward" through capitalism's stages, not improvement. The fundamental disagreement centers on whether societal change represents advancement or mere transformation, with Taylor viewing Christianity as an obstacle to genuine progress and Dominic seeing it as an evolving force that reflects broader material conditions.
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