Religious comrades good
Religious comrades good
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I swear to god (hah), at least 20% of the posts on this website are posts making good points, but in the most hostile way possible.
Why are you surprised that some people reacted defensively to this post? You just stereotyped a bunch of people as crybaby wojacks, if you had instead made a short paragraph of text explaining your feelings, there would be way more people who would be willing to discuss the topic rationally.
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The only people not welcome on the left are STEM graduates
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I'm sorry, a religion that states that I'll go to hell or whatever for being who I am is something I'm gonna be skeptical of
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Going to church, singing hymns, following dietary restrictions, sacrificing to the gods, etc., etc. :halal:
Demanding a ban on abortion because women's rights makes baby Jesus cry :haram:
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“aktually jesus is into abortion because he gets to see babbys sooner” - pat robertson, probably
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I never got the ban on abortion thing if you actually wanted to stop abortion you would be in favour of additional support for mothers, banning it just pushes the practice underground and makes it less safe
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I think it's because they're thinking about abortion through a deontological lens as opposed to a consequentialist one.
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Religious comrades good but many religious claims and beliefs must be challenged. Many are incompatible, antithetical to liberation, reinforcing patriarchical systems, gender normativity homophobia, classism, ethnic "purity", victim blaming, and a deprioritization of material struggle.
Which is not to say it's always the most important thing to highlight these things in every context, nor that you should withhold critical support for AES and revolution by inevitably imperfect movements. We must have solidarity.
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I think I said this elsewhere but the Bible was written in the early iron age for an early iron age audience and it simply isn't materialist (the belief that ideas come from your influences) to not factor in that the cultural and material reality of that context won't influence how they interact with God and religion.
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The Bible was written and modified over a super long time that includes basically all of the three big historical ages, and of course for and by different cultural groups (and individuals).
But I'm not sure what understanding that context - and people who draw from that legacy, which you've mentioned - has to do with what I said.
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