Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)

Historical_General@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Duder167@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Religion is going the direction of right wing politics in that its silly to argue something so ridiculous.

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  • Historical_General@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Faith is apparently on the rise (~84% of the world), and whether you like them or not they have to be worked with. Their culture and ideas will inform society whether we like it or not. By blinkering ourselves you’ll allow the worst opportunists to take advantage of both them and your ignorant selves.

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    • Duder167@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is it on the rise or is it apparently on the rise? Is faith including everything from Jesus to the flying spaghetti monster? Islam seems to be the only religion with growth, projected to catch up to Christianity by 2050. I guess you meant we will be working with Muslims as they will be shaping the world, sorry women of the world.

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      • Historical_General@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        People like us in the wealthiest nations have no right to criticise Muslims as a group (if that’s even legitimate criticism, it isn’t) when we prop up the worst Muslims (Saudis and other Arabs) and have always worked against democratic, secular and relatively feminist and progressive elements in the Muslim world.

        Your snide anti-intellectual new atheism is a cover for general snobbery and possibly a barely concealed racialised Islamophobia.

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• marmo7ade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Condemning the backwards is the first step of progress.

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it really smugness to deny one’s one magical origin and special status in creation?

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  • Historical_General@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not sure what pleasure you get from telling e.g. women that magic isn’t real, that astrology is bs, and that crystals are only pretty and don’t have special powers. If I were such an unfulfilled person, I’d resolve to get another hobby. Possibly environmentalism or something.

    And I’m talking about people that are specifically chauvistic for a hobby and anti-intellectual. I’m not talking about the average normal person that dislikes Catholics or some other misogynistic elements of religion.

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