Quote from: K-Dog500 years ago, German peasants revolted – but their faith that the Protestant Reformation stood for freedom was dashed by Martin Luther and the nobility.

Yes because like I said Protestantism is a product of capitalist modernity, which used the erstwhile Catholic religion/ideology to establish absolute monarchies whose power derived from an emerging capitalist/mercantile class rather than the old feudal networks of kinship and fealty. The peasants' revolts rejected both feudal Catholicism and modern Protestantism, instead using Christian ideological categories to justify their goal of establishing a primitive form of agrarian socialism. Both Protestantism and revolutionary peasant christianity were early forms of atheism because they created god out of the earthly interests of man. And today all so-called "religious" people of all persuasions are atheists because religion was the ideological expression of pre-capitalist systems of exploitation and cannot exist in the current, globalized social order.

QuoteHard core Christians are very anti-capitalist.  Christians who say otherwise are posers who do not have personal faith.  Same thing with war.  You can be a phony Christian and claim whatever, but if you are a real follower of Christ, thou shall not kill is serious business.  If you say otherwise, all you have it the t-shirt.

That's just left-liberal atheism with frills and I myself prefer communism. However Kierkegaard spits hot facts and is definitely worth a read, especially Either/Or and Practice in Christianity.

QuoteProtestantism whether religious or secular.   And a dog who is really a cat. Are you taking speech lessons from Trump?  The art of obfuscation?   Secular Christianity is faith without regard to gaudy mystification, life after death and such.  That I get.  But you are going to have to explain how Protestantism can possibly be secular.  That is ridiculous.

The term "secular" when describing any religion means primarily cultural/political rather than theological. Like I said, all religions today are primarily cultural/political by definition.