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.
On lemmy.world, without even talking about the tankie places, a post positive about religion will be downvoted, no matter what the subject or argumentation is. One can be against religion, that’s understandable, but that’s just being aggressive.
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.