Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent

• LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m gonna give the unpopular take online and say that religion is not the source. Religion is only a tool that is often used negatively within class struggle. The source of Israel today is so much more ingrained in white supremacy, colonialism, and class conflict that I just can’t say that “banning” religion would be at all helpful.

  The religion and hope of the Palestine people is a core part of their resistance and their struggle. And while I’ll always be against fundamentalist interpretation of religion in the hands of the ruling class; I just think a focus on religion as being the ultimate problem is incorrect and unhelpful.

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• iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think banning is a good answer. My own preferred solution is mandatory religious education. Once you learn about all of the religions of the world the idea that any of them could possibly be correct about either the nature of reality or deciding what is right becomes clearly absurd.

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or you know, you realize the source of your beliefs is incomgruent, and you don’t really know what you believe in.

    You are supposed to have a clear set of guiding principles from a given all-knowing God, otherwise he is just cruel, and not worth worshipping.

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    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A set of guiding principles from and all-knowing God is not what religion is. Maybe it’s what Abrahamic religions are, but there were religions before them and other religions even today.

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cmon, your soul depends on getting it right. Might as well be as clear and accurate as possible.

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