Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon

• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you can look around at the results of allowing religions to dominate society for thousands of years and tell me that you think it’s going well, or even that we have a good chance of surviving the century as a species, then I don’t think you are a fully functioning human being.

  I don’t know what the objective truth of the world is. But what I do know, is that that truth has never been ordained to earthly man by a burning fucking bush or whatever the fuck your particular religion dictates.

  Arguing over interpretations of the hallucinations had by uneducated people thousands of years ago is not just pointless, it promotes a level of ignorance worship that is highly corrosive to a functioning society.

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  • RedMari@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All forms of centralized hierarchical power are bad: capitalism, nation-state, and organized religion. Nothing wrong with decentralized, liberating spiritual beliefs.

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    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But those do not include organized religions that have holy books written about ancient hallucinations.

      Spiritualism is fine (generally) but it can still lead to delusional thinking. As in, verifiably false conclusions.

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      • RedMari@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s possible to believe in monotheist religion and scripture without supporting the centralized oppressive organization that exploits them.

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• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Could you at least pay your damn taxes? Every religion. Why are WE forced to pay for YOU.

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  • RedMari@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tf you talking about? I pay taxes. I’m not a part of any church. I’m a Muslim who is anti-hierarchical organized religion.

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    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You claim religions are toxic, but your anti-religiousness seems to make you quite angry and toxic.

      My use of “your” was in response to “religions”, the topic of your last sentence.

      The pronoun always refers to the last subject… which wasn’t you personally.

      Also, please note that Muslim mosques don’t pay taxes, just like Catholic churches and Scientology and every other brand of religion; many more breaks than any non-profit.

      It’s a religion, you see, so that’s what the fuck I am talking about. Your mosque should pay property taxes et al just like everybody else.

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