I’m looking to explore Christian anarchist spirituality and thought from women- almost all the Christian anarchists I read or read about are men (aside from Dorothy Day and somewhat in passing, Nekeisha Alayna Alexis). And the vast majority are white. Are there many explorations of Christian anarchism by people of color, (besides Zae Aso Illo)?

"Everyone needs a nice place to live in, and good food to eat that's not too expensive, and clean clothes with no holes or patches. A doctor to call, an old friend to visit. A way to get places, parties and music. A street to walk safely, and benches to sit on with shade in the summer, and warm friendly places to be in the winter. Some work to do that's useful to others and doesn't get boring. And someone checking so no one's forgotten. Money to spend that's given and taken without feeling guilty. Love without pity. Pride without anger.

Everyone knows what everyone needs.

But programs, laws, city councils, commissions, agency bureaus can't give it to us. All of us need the best in each other. And if we can find it, and if we can give it, the rest will soon follow.

If we all stick together, we'll get what we need". — Utah Phillips, 2007

I'm writing today in an unfortunate situation, because my post that I made to r/singularity on reddit about the AI/automation narrative and how it's being used to support coercive authoritarianism and unholiness was deleted due to some reason in the midst of the current societal discussion on the merits of these advanced technologies.

To me, this highlights the 1984-style censorship of information given to the masses, highlighted also, for example, in the lack of coverage of alternative ways of life that could be explored. It's all designed to perpetuate this narrative that unholiness should be condoned and administered through this new development, which SHOULD be used to advanced a narrative of spreading the word of Jesus. It's a farce. These people are continuing an inherently farcical way of running society and its just made that much more obvious by the advanced technology movement that's going on, and it's corrupt handling by the authorities.

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I can't be the only one who believes such a notion, that's why I'm posting it here on r/christiananarchism because I hope it won't get deleted.

I am new to Christian Anarchism and I was wondering if there are any formalized ways to increase my community with others?

I currently live in Central Indiana and I would prefer to have in person community and fellowship if possible, online is great too. Since I am pretty new to the whole ideology, and in a pretty conservative state, I was just unsure how to go about it.

'Civil citizenship is a destructive game that isn’t even played for anything resembling real wealth. It is played for made-up points like currency and coin that even continue to depreciate through inflation. This is the nature of corvee and civil bondage. It puts people in such competition with one another that they must sell their children to it for tax benefits, and the eligibility to covet their neighbor’s goods through the agency of human civil government, via taxation and tribute.

These made-up points in the rat race of political infidelity and despair are necessary, because the existing system is bankrupt of any real wealth. National economies go into debt by the overspending that invariably exists when you elect rulers, legislators, and other wicked men to rule over your wicked hearts. Therefore, National economies, or the illusion thereof, can only be maintained by borrowing against the future: Necessarily, the flesh, blood, sweat, and tears of your children’s livelihood. Because the made-up points of fiat economy will not exist when the game is over, you must cannibalize your children in order to keep the losing game going for just a little while longer. This is the necessary factor in worshipping Baal and Molech. Sacrificing children, passing them through the jurisdictional fires of civil citizenship, ensuring their destruction for temporary prosperity.'

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'In order to get people to sign up for a corvee system there usually needs to be the appearance of an advantage to the members.

Social insurance was not an American invention. For the most part, it was a Continental innovation, appearing first in Europe in the late 19th century. some 20 nations around the world already had such a program in place, and another 30 or more had introduced at least one other social insurance program. Contributory Social Insurance programs first began as early as 1900 in parts of Australia. thy were limited in scope until the late 1920s.

This new idea of a government run social security system began in Austria shortly after the 1938 Anschluss thanks to Hitler's progressive approach. In America a similar system was established by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. Thousands of years earlier the Pharaoh and Joseph set up a similar system in Egypt. That system allowed all the citizens of a country to literally be Employed by the State. In Egypt Joseph limited the share of labor that the state could take to only 1/5 of the annual labor of the people and it was called the bondage of Egypt. That amounted to 20% of an individuals labor was taken from the people to support the welfare system provided by the State.

Some times there is a famine and to get help a ruler will set up a system like that in Egypt set up by Joseph for the Pharaoh. He put a ceiling limit of 20%. Other systems are not limited as to the amount and some systems borrow what is needed and the people may become a surety for the debt

In Egypt gold was removed from the people and they used something as money that had no value except within their system. The Spartan also saw private wealth as the enemy of the state and only had lead money. The people needed to be in debt with no accumulation of real wealth or real money where they might be able to pay their debt and buy their freedom. They could have legal tender but not lawful money.'

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'The third thing to know is that the method by which they intend to rule is called democracy. We’re back to that word now — democracy. The problem arises: How does a ruling elite control the masses in an age where people have been conditioned to think that they should determine their own political destiny. We’ve been taught like in that classroom — we’ll vote on everything and our vote will make it correct, and as long as we’re given the vote, everything is fine. We’ve been taught that, so how does the ruling elite deal with that mass psychology where everybody thinks that they should have a right to vote on their leaders and on the issues and so forth? The answer is quite simple. How do you keep the gum-chewing public out of the way, and that leads to the title of my presentation which is The Quigley Formula.

Quigley answers that question in his book. He says to perpetuate the deception of democracy, to allow people to continue to think that they are participating in their own political destiny, all we have to do is create two political parties and control them both and let the idiots jump from one party to the next and choose one candidate adverse the other as long as they never get out of that two-box trap that we set for them. Let them really battle each other on secondary issues, but when it comes to the final endgame of building a New World Order — building a New World Order based on the model of collectivism — all candidates in both parties must be in total agreement. That’s the Quigley formula. Does that sound familiar? Did Quigley really say that? He did.'

abolishhumanarchism.com/2019/06/28/the-quigley-formula

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'Driven by my motivation to know nothing but Christ, I allowed myself the necessary pause in order to investigate my convictions and discerning how they related to my relationship with Him. I began to study what it really meant to be “in the world but not of the world” and how to keep my “religion unstained from the world.” My conclusions crushed me in allowing me to see that I had once again failed by being so easily led astray, by passively following the group, going back the same direction I had come. Shortly after making this realization, I encountered quite a few christian “anarchists” through many contacts within the abolitionist movement, and I was led to experiences in understanding Scripture, including various interpretations of “Romans 13“, each more hermeneutic than my previous presupposition. Ultimately, my conclusions led me to grief for how badly I had failed this mission that I set upon.

However, I did not weep for my failure for my journey has made me know more fully the essence of the Gospel, and compelled me to better understand the implications of Christ’s perfect works on the cross. I am not yet completely sanctified unto the characteristics on the right side of the diagram in this article, but praise God that I am no longer completely characterized by the left side. So on this day, my three year anniversary after intentionally beginning to desperately find out the truth of Christianity and pure religion and obedience, I beseech all of you to examine this information and work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

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'And if the majority of Christians persist in their complacency, we will increasingly lose our freedoms. Christians largely sleep on, as step after step is taken. It is not too late to change this destructive situation, but it is too late for mere words. It is time for Christians to fight this materialistic, humanistic tide and provide Christian alternatives. It is time that we came out of our cloistered, compartmentalized existence and took our place in the political and legal arenas.

We must continue to pray and witness to people of salvation in Christ. But we must also fight for the sanctity of human life, fight for the protection of the family, fight for the proper education of our children, fight for our right to speak and worship freely, and fight for a church that is bound to the tenets of God and not the state as though it were an autonomous authority.

We must protest. We must resist. Yet we must not move with zeal without also moving in wisdom and scriptural authority. We must understand how God’s Word applies to the whole spectrum of society, and we must know how to use our constitutional channels to work toward change.'

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I don't know if anyone's noticed, but that sort of fervor for the liberating potential of the internet, characterized by the "Anonymous" hacker group and the Occupy movement, has been co-opted, or at least has been attempting to be co-opted, by this push by those who support civilization, characterized by Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden. Not to mention, internet forums like popular Facebook pages and even Reddit itself have wholeheartedly supported this vision that does not include that potential for true decentralized liberation and justice that the internet and other advanced technologies inspire and aid in creating.

Let's take back the tempo and reign in the attention of the masses towards that potential for liberation that the internet and other advanced technologies bring.

I think a strong case can be made that the Trinity is an anarchist commune. Just look at what the Athanasius creed says about it: "And in this Trinity none is before, or after another; none is greater, or less than another. But the whole three Persons are coeternal, and coequal. ... He therefore that will be saved, let him thus think of the Trinity."

I love the language here. None "before or after," none "greater or lesser," all three infinitely "coequal." This statement gives us two forms of social relations: before and after and greater and lesser. Both directional in different ways. In the Trinity no one is in front of any other, there are no leaders or followers. Rather all three work in concert. Greater and lesser had to do with relations of superior/inferior. No leaders or followers, just equals acting in concert--that's a consensus based form of action, and that requires the consent of everyone involved as well as a radical commitment to solidarity, and it must he opposed to coercion. No superior/inferior, in other words no hierarchy. No one gets pride of place, nobody is "first among equals," there is total and infinite coequality.

This is starting to sound like a direct democratic communal form isn't it? And this is what every Christian is obligated to believe if they want to be an orthodox Trinitarian. The anti-imperial heart of the Hebrew and Christian bibles managed to get enshrined in the heart of orthodox Christianity, in the heart of God's inner life. If we can establish a strong case that the Trinitarian social life is anarchist, it means that solidarity, empathy, cooperation, equality, and mudual aid all flow with the grain of the universe itself, and that nationalism, imperialism, coercion, competition, inequality, and selfishness grate against reality. It would mean patriarchy and dictatorships and slavery are not natural relationships for people to have.

Let me look at the form of the Trinity a little closer. According to orthodox doctrine, the Trinity is a divine community of three Persons who exist in so intimate a relationship with one another that they all share the same inner Life, so that they are all one Being. But the oneness comes from the sharing of the one Life by the three Persons. They pass the "energies" of their shared Life between them like a circuit. The energies, Augustine argued, was the love passed between the Persons. According to John Damascene, the divine life is circular, a circulation of energies.

This idea became known as the doctrine of perichoresis, also referred to as "mutual indwelling." In 20th century Trinitarian theology, this has become a centerpiece of the discussion. It basically states that each Person puts the needs of the other two ahead of themself. It is a community where everyone puts the other first. The Father prioritizes the needs of the Son and Spirit in love, trusting the other two to prioritize the Father's needs. Paul reflects this idea in 2 Cor. 8, on how mutual aid and sharing generates equality. The Father's love is so great that the Father gives the totality of the Father self to the others, and they give themselves to the Father, and so the Life of the Trinity is a circulation of sharing and self-emptying. We can't understand the Trinity without kenosis.

"The Father exists in the Son, the Son in the Father, and both of them in the Spirit, just as the Spirit exists in both the Father and the Son. By virtue of their eternal love they live in one another to such an extent that they are one. It is a process of most perfect and intense empathy" (Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom, p. 174-175)

Further, as Puritan Jonathan Edwards argued, the way in which decisions are made between the Persons in the Trinity is through a democratic process. The Trinity makes decisions by way of an "agreement between the Persons of the Trinity .... as it were by mutual consultation" (quoted in Shaw, The Supreme Harmony of it all, p. 91). Shaw herself notes that the Trinity operates on the basis of "perfect consent" (Shaw, p. 93). Likewise Gruenler describes the Trinitarian society to be built on "mutual and voluntary agreement" (Gruenler, Trinity in the Gospel of John, p. xviii).

It would not be a stretch, then, to describe the Trinitarian relation as a consensual and voluntary direct democracy, through which all decisions must achieve consensus and avoid coercive force, which is based on mutual respect, empathy, solidarity and egalitarian principles. No competition, coercion, or hierarchy.

I'd love thoughts, notes, observations, etc

It seems to me that this and other related ideas about technology and the general topic of "ideally constructing society" is the perfect opportunity for Christians to highlight the flaws with capitalism and coercive civilization/societies generally and to advocate for holy decentralized, self-sufficient community as the answer.

People in Seattle are now "enjoying" a $19 an hour minimum wage. This is arguably the first time in the history of civilization that a major city within a civilization has had a sizable renumeration for the working class, except revolultionary Catalonia. What's it going to take for people to realize that this way of an "ideal civilization", the working class having an "ideal wage" is fundamentally flawed because any act of coercion or violence (that the state depends on) leads to invariably negative outcomes? When will people start to choose holy decentralized communities instead of the global state civilization system?

Jesus showed us how to combat the worldy systems through his life example and his teachings. I wonder why more people can't see that he was trying to help us?....