• Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Look man, I am not religious, but religion is not the reason bad people do bad things, I am not going to say it is nessicarily an inharent part of their charicter, but there are other reasons. People will also do great feets of good in the name of religion as well. to boil it all down to religion is really an over simplification.

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      6 months ago

      Religion is a catch-all for beliefs, ideology, etc, and it is religion. The fight is your sky God versus my sky God. Meanwhile, it’s the same fucking God.

      Name a mass genocide / terrorist attack committed by atheists. And I’m talking about groups, not some neckbeard from Reddit who decided to shoot up a school.

      I’ll wait.

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        6 months ago

        Stalin wasn’t religious and actively tried to stamp out religion.

        He killed what, 6+ million people?

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          6 months ago

          I think you are confusing him with the other moustached man of WW2

          Stalin “only” killed 1.2 million at the high estimate. He killed people because they were in opposition rather than a certain race like Hitler.

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        Ill be honest, I am an Athiest, and I had about a year where I went through the “reddit athiest” phase where all religion is evil, but religion is very rarely, especialy in modern time (but I would argue even in pre modern) the root cause of the issue, is it a stated reason, yes, is it an accelerant to the issue maybe, but very rarely have I found it to be the rout cause.

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        In the US religion is absolutely being used to spearhead social conservatism and anti-government ideas. Evangelists are backing candidates who say stuff like “only while male Christians should be able to vote”. And the judge appointed to the Supreme Court that shifted it to the far right has heavy ties to that same section of Christianity.

        Let’s not forget too that the entire reason we have this conflict is extremist Jews believe God gave them the entirety of Palestine and Syria.