• MartinXYZ
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    1 year ago

    Do you often find yourself in “discussions about religion” where your primary contribution is to complain about Christianity and Islam?

    I live in Denmark where Christianity is the biggest religion, so it’s the one I have had shoved down my throat the most, which makes it the most obvious to criticize (because it’s the one I know the most about). As many people know Denmark has been on the news a lot lately because of people burning books. This has been a major topic in the Danish media even before the story spread across the world, so it’s been something I’ve debated on the regular the last couple of years as well. Those debates have mostly focused on the book burners though, and my criticism would be limited to something like “it’s just a book”. This is why I mentioned those two religions in my original post.

    I don’t know much about Zoroastrianism or Buddhism, so I wouldn’t know what to criticize. The same pretty much goes for Judaism, though I guess I know a bit more about that religion, seeing as Christianity is mostly built upon the Jewish scriptures.

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      1 year ago

      Those debates have mostly focused on the book burners though, and my criticism would be limited to something like “it’s just a book”.

      That’s not really a criticism of the religion though. Actually, it’s a criticism of people of that religion being angry about people from another religion slighting their own, which is more an opinion on book burning (which I vehemently disagree with mostly for reasons related to historical preservation) than anything to do with religion.

      The reason I ask is that this post seems to imply that you are having conversations with friends when suddenly, " you know what grinds my gears? Christianity! Oh and by the way, fuck those Muslims too!" And negative Atheism is often an excuse for bigotry.