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I was talking to a relative yesterday, a christian who was telling me how amazingly blessed they were because they had a need of something that was too expensive new and too difficult to find used and in good shape.

But God hooked them up with someone in their church community who had this thing, no longer needed it, was happy to give it to my relative for free.

They cited another example of being blessed like this when a friend noticed a need they had and found someone in the community who was willing to pay for it for them.

They became quite emotional describing how "blessed" they were.

I wanted so much to tell them:

That wasn't "God" at all, that's communism!
Or as anarchists would call it: Mutual Aid.
This is not God, this is something deeply, essentially, and definitively *human*.

#blessing #communism #MutualAid #anarchism