• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


Last few days we've run smack into the "Marxism is really gnosticism" and holy fuck is this a big thing with the Christian right—but more importantly, it's a big thing with right-wing figures who are clearly Christian in sympathy, who drop little hints and signals about their Christianity, but who for political reasons refuse to admit that they're Christian.

I feel like there's a lot going on here. First, there's the general reactionary-Christian tendency, which has been going on for many decades, of trying to secularize their own ideology, stripping it of overt religious content so that they can claim to be legitimate scientists and scholars who just happen to believe in creationism and policing pregnancies and other such things. In concert, they've been working overtime to propagandize secular theories, both scientific and academic, as secret religions. If you're old enough (like me) you may remember the attempt to pretend, some decades ago, that "Secular Humanism" was a religious belief that was the secret true reason for evolutionary biology and other things—well that's gotten far more elaborate over the years and it seems like they've decided that gnosticism is a handy one-size-fits-all method for pretending that secular ideologies are secretly religious.

~Chara


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