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Important distinction
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this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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I recently visited reddit and was horrified to see how many people there say “Lol he believes in sky dady, his opinions are worthless, ban all religion” and even some extreme comments like “All christians are pedoes” and I am seeing this rising slowly on lemmy as well
Any sort of extremism is bad, whether that’s religious, political or atheistic(?), and thats what we should be fighting, banning hijabs is not gonna do any good
ahem
"I want to kill all brown people like the crusaders before me"
"I want him to not be allowed to do that and if he does he should be dealt with severely and quickly."
"now now guys you're both being too extreme"
When it comes to atheists vs religion, I know which group I'd trust to not firebomb my workplace.
Pls tell me which religion says to kill brown ppl
Ask the crusades
They killed "pagans" not "black people" there is a difference.
*brown
Weird how it was almost exclusively brown people who were targeted as pagans.
Idk, latwians aren't brown
Communists also firebomb workplaces
Making his point...
The Naxalite-Maoists of India are explicitly atheist and they also firebomb innocent people.
Political and religious extremism are two sides of the same coin.
The coin is human nature.
Religion is for the feeble minded.
Extremism is not bad. The only proper response to fascism is antifascism, for example. Balance is not a virtue, that's like saying we need both the KKK and the antiracists to make a nice balance.
What did an avg. Christian do who works 9-5, barely makes up enough money to support his family and kids, to be a called a pedophile, just the fact that he prays to a god? I love lemmy but All civil discussion is lost when you go against the majority opinion, which ironically enough is the exact same thing that fascist right wingers do, but ofc it’s not the same thing
Middle Ground Fallacy. Just because two sides exist does not mean the truth is somewhere in the middle. There are issues where one side is objectively right. Supporting the side that is wrong does not make you a advocate for civility; it makes you wrong.
Now, could there be more polite discussion? Sure. Does that mean anti-theists should allow religion to further taint our politics, rights, and conversation? Absolutely not.
GTFO of here with this bullshit.
That’s indeed very rude behavior towards your hypothetical person.
Are you legitimately calling antiracism and antifascism a "wrong" just so you can take this "enlightened centrist" approach? What the fuck. Again, extremism isn't a bad thing in and of itself, it depends on what you're being extremist about. Being extremely antiracist? Good. Being extremely racist? Extremely bad.
The average Christain who works 9-5, barely makes enough money to support his family and kids, is also homophobic, transphobic, racist, and sexist. It is the minority among religious people to take the correct approach.
I am not blaming religious people, but Religion itself.