Faux Brotherhood

[scrwtape]

There is something that has been flipping my bitch switch recently, so this is a bit of a rant

Comments

[razorsharpblade]

Hear hear. It's a kind of overly romantic sentiment associated with being co-religionists that has never sat well with me regardless of the faith concerned. In fact, it bugs the crap outta me. Unfortunately it then takes a fair degree of effort for me to take seriously any other points such a correspondent (to a list, or anywhere else) may make.

I applaud your restraint, as I have a sense that biting back would not gain you much.

[narfi]

The idea that co-religionists are family is one that came when people started to leave their extended kin-groups for cities and used membership in mystery religions as the basis for a pseudo-kinship. It is a very unheathen concept.

[dr_beowulf]

We Arkansans understand this very well. To truly be someone's brother, you must also be his cousin, uncle, nephew, and quite possibly father, all at the same time. . .