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For all the love and understanding talk, religions sure do murder a lot of people.
@aral people sure do murder a lot of people*
@sirobsidian “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”
@aral Guns aren't Actor objects. Guns are used as a tool for murder, while religion has been used as a justification for it.
Turns out it's a lot easier for people to take lives when they think it's morally right, even when they have really different reasons for it.
@sirobsidian Indeed.
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@aral
This is true, although to be fair, most ideological groups seem to once they get a certain level of power and influence.
@Blort Indeed. But very few promise a lush afterlife as a reward :)
@aral Yeah, but commies: "Hold my beer"
@vandys And now capitalists: “Hold my beer”
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freidmanism - give me your beer while you perish from starvation
@aral
"Religions don't kill people, religious people kill people"
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
"Guns don't kill people, _I_ kill people"
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@aral it's even more absurd when a brown person talks about Islam (while being born in a Muslim country) and white people would flat out call you racist and ban you from the online spaces they control. "Islamophobia" is the word now used in the West to enact blasphemy laws there too. I guess even if one immigrated away from being oppressed, tortured, imprisoned and killed, the far reaching hands of religious propaganda will have a say in our lives... It surely fucking sucks.
@unexpectedteapot As an ex-Muslim (was born into it, was never much of a decision), I concur entirely.
@aral it's literally written on the birth certificate of newborns in many Muslim-controlled countries. (And in Islam converting away from it is punishable by death.) Western people have no idea how messed up things are over here.
@unexpectedteapot Yep, tell me about it ;)
@aral ah man, what a breath of fresh air reading that article... Thank you.
@aral Selling the myth of Us versus Them, we are right, they are sinners or wrong is the core principle in dominating the people. Control is power and the enemy of truth. Organized religions belong in the primitive past where men needed an ethical and behavioral compass to make laws stick. We have now, freedom of thought and the devices to learn the truth about a lot of things, no need for superstitions.
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@aral They also drive many to suicide.
@aral All religions are brainworms