Hi, everyone.
I’ve created a new Lemmy instance particularly for the discussion of religion and topics relevant to religion.
Other Lemmy instances can sometimes feel a bit hostile to religion, and I’m hoping to create a place that feels a bit more supportive.
If you’re interested, feel free to go create a new community there. I’ve also gone ahead and created communities for Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, and if you’re interested in modding one of those, let me know.
Because the vast majority of religions oppress people…
And lots of religious people don’t want to fix that, they want to skip to where everyone treats religious people better and ignore how religions treat people.
If you follow an Abrhamic religion and claim to have to be against abortion and LGBTQ because your religion tells you to…
All the Abrhamic religions also say to do horrible shit like kill non-believers. So if they’re saying they have to follow the rules and it’s not their choice, we can look at the other things their religions tell them to do, and assume the reason they’re quite about those parts, is they don’t have the numbers to accomplish those parts.
Yet.
If they want people to be nicer, their primary focus needs to be on fixing their own house first.
It’s like a narcissist demanding everyone forgive them, but they don’t actually apoligize and definitely don’t change the behavior that upset people.
I went to Catholic school for two years, and I don’t recall being taught to kill non-believers.
That’s kind of the whole point…
Catholics say they have to be against abortion and LGBT because of what the Bible says, but even worse shit is in there that is being ignored because Catholicism doesn’t have the numbers.
So either you don’t have to follow it, or the organized religion isn’t being honest about what they want
And followers are often naive. Which is why it doesn’t matter when a fringe group says they decided to draw the line at a more time appropriate line.
If some of it isn’t binding, none of it is. And eventually another extremist group will spring from your ideology.
It’s like if people started marching around with swastikas but said it’s cool because they only follow “the good parts” of being a fucking nazi. If we accept them as a valid group, eventually some members will embrace the other shit.
With religions it’s even worse, because you believe an all-powerful entity exists and will follow what you think that entity works. The majority of evil in this world is people who believe they are acting for the greater good.
Catholicism has the numbers. There are several countries in the world which are majority Catholic. (Including Vatican City, which is 100% Catholic.)
It takes more than a simple majority to start killing every nonbeliever…
And like I said:
What’s your explanation for saying the Bible forces them to only have some political beliefs and not to support everything?
If they can pick and choose, why should we care what they pick? Either it doesn’t matter to them what the Bible says, or they’re not honest about their motivations and/or goals
Paraguay is about 90% Catholic. Is that enough of a majority? Should we expect a massacre in Paraguay any day now?