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The things they said sound like Boomer-level excuses/groveling given by Rightists to Leftists for how "actually, Christianity isn't that bad because the founding figure shares what you claim your values are". It's attempting to hold the master to account with the tools he made specifically to escape that accountability, which you can only do if that master is mistaken about their position of power... and by and large, they're not.
The fact that there exists a... teacher-to-savior pipeline in the first place is fascinating. Maybe the more biblical Christians rag on the people at the start of that pipeline a bit too hard (not that they really have any choice due to their position as the end of that pipeline, though I seem to remember a Screwtape Letter at least adjacent to this).
The book of Job is (from a certain point of view) "men will literally believe in an invisible, unfalsifiable, otherworldly power instead of going to therapy" and it's weird that nobody points this out.
A group that operates in/benefits from/is driven by conflict theory is tautologically incapable of questioning why people wouldn't want to submit to their power. This applies to both sides of the aisle.
I unironically agree with this in a way. It is strange that leftists are usually extremely opposed to Christianity when it is the same belief system that championed many of the values that they espouse.
No one points this out because that's not at all a genuine perspective of the Book of Job. Job is ultimately a explanation of why evil exists in the world and an ontological examination between the status of god and man.
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His wife's suggestion of “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” is not exactly a subtle way to introduce the perspective of "just give up and throw your entire toolset/problem solving framework out the window and adopt mine, because it's clearly not going well for you right now [and it would make you feel better]", but it does the Job.
That line of thinking isn't seriously explored for what should be obvious reasons (because it's a 2-verse exchange, though his friends also do this to an extent), but I suspect it's there for that reason.
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