It will never happen on a large scale. Not as long as there is this much money to be made. I have no doubts these freaks will keep trying and make our lives harder, though.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
these people have been planning on this for lot longer than a year. christians have been trying to ban video games for decades. the only reason this group hasn't come after more games is because they know they don't yet have enough politicians behind them to manage it.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Korkki@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
christians have been…
A few closeted and bitter homosexuals in denial have been…
JonsJava@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
This comment was reported as homophobic.
I believe the meaning of the comment to be
Republicans projecting - again
Leaving it up for @Korkki@lemmy.ml to clarify.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Just saying that those who are most obsessive about policing morality or sexuality of others are often just hypocritical/ in denial themselves.
False@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s been interesting to see this agenda switch from D to R over the least 30 years in the US.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Christians are evil
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
I don’t want to come off as pedantic, but what we’re dealing with in the US is a very strange and successful breed of “Christian Nationalism.”
Essentially, it’s a belief that ultra-conservative Christianity is the only legitimate religion and that the USA is a Christian nation.
It probably comes as no surprise that these people heavily influenced the Confederacy, is strongly white-supremecist, anti-vice, etc, and has been an anathema in this country since before the states actually formed.
Christians themselves are… A problem, but not the problem. It’s these Christian nationalists. They’re loud. They want you to think all Christians believe what they do too. They also tend to drown out opposing Christian speakers by being louder than them too.
It’s one of the reasons why MLK Jr was hated so much by Hoover, by the south, etc. He was a Christian pastor, and stood against everything they did.
It’s important that we don’t group Christians in with Christian Nationalists. It’s very difficult but necessary.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 day ago
I do agree, but I still think that all religions are a cancer on humanity, harming us, dividing us and holding us back. Religion is the enemy of progress.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Humans are the ones that are harming and dividing us. If religion is gone they’ll find a new way to do it. Us vs them mentality is part of human nature and has always attached itself to anything that can be called ours vs theirs. Religion, politics, sports, skin color, language, the fucking phone brand you use, you name it.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Yeah, that’s all fine and good.
Just don’t confuse “cocaine” with “cocaine laced with fentanyl.” One is significantly worse.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
The best counter example I’ve seen is Shintoism.
But on a separate note, i believe religion has an evolutionary advantage vs logic and reason, as evidenced by it being so prevalent throughout human history. So in the most literal sense, i believe humans wouldn’t have any progress without religion.
In order to survive, humans need to build societies that can adapt to the ever changing environments we find ourselves in.
One possibility is to use pure science, logic, and reason: educate every child on the scientific method, teach them how to not fall for logical fallacies, to be skeptical, to demand extraordinary evidence to support extraordinary claims, to repeat experiments and engage in peer review, to create ethical frameworks, and have a logical justification for the actions you take…
Another possibility is to use religion: brainwash a kid on what “good” looks like, and show them how to put on blinders to anything that might threaten that. Johnny down the street is “sinning”? Make him stop, that hurts our society. Father Dale is touching kids? Don’t lose sight of the goal, Father Dale is a great man, this is a personal struggle that we can help him through.
Which of those two methods of adaptation requires less energy? Because when an organism has to evolve, the organism that can do it using less energy will have the advantage. Religion, or the concept of morality in general, is a society’s selection pressure on itself. The best we can do is acknowledge this, and learn to wield it as a tool. And I believe that many leaders throughout human history, both political and religious, understood this well.
fuckgod@feddit.online 1 day ago
Mostly because of all the stupid.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
All religions are evil.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Right on man. Fuckin’ Buddhists. Probably don’t even use Linux.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Buddhist nationalists do genocide all the same, like in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
TheBat@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Do you know about Myanmar?
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Met this Amish person once, didn’t even known what Linux was. The heathen.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Buddhists are also capable of committing violence in the name of their religion. Look at Myanmar
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
"I use Arch, btw"
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Painting with such a broad brush is how these people got to where they are now, don’t make the same mistakes they did.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Lmao thanks for the heads-up, past me.
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dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Wait, how do you get that? I also use Voyager, but not seeing that :/
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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I should have been more specific. Probably the standard pig headed refusal to acknowledge a point 🤷♂️
Draegur@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Oooh how do you do that user tag function? I couldn’t find it when I looked just now and it appears as though we’re using the same frontend…?
Katana314@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
What I gather from the linked conversation: (In regards to a joke where a boy turns out to have a polygamous dad)
Islamic theocratics are not the same as muslims. Theocracy is where the law of one’s god is seen as the ruling body, and tend to be more of the extremists of a religion - in Islam’s case, the ones more likely to use religion as a weapon of power to have multiple wives. Nothing in that conversation came across as “Being pro-Islam is being anti-feminism”.
I’d also point out, the user made several efforts to ask for better explanation from those disagreeing, but everyone was just digging for more words from him instead of discussing openly. This is how disagreement is manufactured.
AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Religion is the closest thing to true evil that exist on this planet. Insane cultists shouldn’t be allowed around children. Not even their own (they tend to mutilate them in order to mark them as members of their insane cult).
liuther9@feddit.nl 1 day ago
He is right you know
Zeusz13@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The bullshit going on in the USA under the christian name is short sighted, stupid and lacks empathy. Christianity isn’t USA fundamentalism tho.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
No, but we’re doing a fantastic job exporting a lot of the doctrine and repackaging it.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Its Republicans. Don’t blame the religion. Republicans want fascism and they want to control everyone’s thoughts and behaviors because they’re wired to be subservient to authoritarians. They hate that so many of us have a mind of our own.
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll happily blame all religion, thank you. Nobody should build a worldview where an unaccountable (and imperceptible) third party is responsible for moral decisions.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
There’s a distinctive difference between american evangelists and other christian groups, for starters that the evangelists have been integrated in the state-religion the USA has been running at least since the cold war., and they are actively utilized by the Republicans. This also means that those evangelists believe that in the US white nationalists should be in power.
Please note that the “christian” part in this has gone pretty far from any christian roots - it’s for the most part just utilized to identify the in-group and to radicalize members. The quip “Y’all qaeda” comes pretty close to the truth - they are just as radical and socially regressive as any other islamic sect that would use terror to achieve their goals.