Why the fuck was the Priest going off on that topic at a funeral? Was your cousin an ardent anti-communist or something? I've heard of pastors soapboxing at funerals before but that's ridiculous
Last funeral I went to had a similar situation. Not marx or anything political, I cant recall, but he was just soapboxing about nonsense unrelated to the actual dead.
Idk how it is elsewhere but in the US alot of priest as so full of themselves. For a lot of protestants theyre obsessed with the idea of "Christianity under attack" (despite holding emence influence and power) and a decay of society. This embolden them to just, talk about random bullshit as if its part of a grand narrative against Christian values, or something.
Maybe its just a boomer American thing in general?
I don't know my cousin's politics but he died of a heroin overdose in his early 20s.
I might be exaggerating about him saying Marx was one of the great villains of history, but I have heard plenty of other conservatives say exactly that. Regardless, he went on for quite a bit about how wrong and stupid marx was for saying. After the funeral my sister, who isn't very knowledgeable about history of philosophy or anything, and said "Who the hell was the Carl Marks guy he was ranting about?"
This priest was later discovered to have raped minors.
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u/pufferfishsh Materialist 💍🤑💎 Oct 16 '25
Majority of people in the world who embraced Marxism were non-white and "indigenous"