• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    You want to know why people feel unsafe with a religious zealot on board an airplane? It’s because in 2001 religious zealots hijacked three planes and murdered thousands of people and terrorize the entire nation.

    Fuck religion

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      Four planes. Two hit the twin towers, one hit the pentagon, and another crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, presumably on the way to the Whitehouse.

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      People don’t call them Y’all qaeda for nothing. US Christians want what the theocratic system of Islam promises.

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        It’s no wonder, with that kind of intense training and discipling, that those young people are ready to kill themselves for the cause of Islam. I wanna see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam. I wanna see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have… excuse me, but we have the truth!

        Becky Fisher, “Jesus Camp”

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Four planes. One of the planes’ passengers just found out what was going on, and forced the plane to crash in PA

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      Fuck religion

      Beware not to conflate the thousand, likely million, different religions and belief systems that existed and exist worldwide for Abrahamic religions.

      Have you ever saw some Luciferian practitioner going door-to-door preaching the words of the Lightbringer?
      Have you ever saw Wiccan priestesses hijacking an airplane to try and convert people to Goddess Hekate?
      Have you ever saw some Umbanda’s Mãe de Santo yelling Laroyê Exu out loud?
      Maybe some Thelemite trying to make people to read Liber Al Vel Legis, or some Hermetist trying to shove The Kybalion onto people’s throats?
      Me neither.

      Similar thing goes with my Lilith-centered belief. My religious practices are mostly between me and Her, and whenever I do something public (devotional art, carving of sigils/seals, etc), it’s never directed at “converting others”.

      So, again, beware not to conflate “religion” with the Abrahamic ones. Or you risk becoming the very kind of “religious zealot” you swore to be against.

      [email protected]

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        Every acceptance of superstition lays the groundwork for a belief in the supernatural. Every Homeopathy-Karen, every Wicca-Hippie, while peaceful and harmless in and of themselves provides the fertile ground on which a bigger misconception of reality can grow.

        Should you be able to have your own beliefs and worship as you please as long as you don’t intrude on the rights of others?

        Absolutely

        But should society consider every expression of unfounded belief a failure of education in critical thinking? Yes.

        Supernatural thinking and superstition are fundamentally at odds with a congruent model of reality, they are infectious memes and can fester into extremism if left unchecked. Not necessarily in the individual but absolutely on a societal scale.

        The Wiccan priestess, the Luciferian practitioner, the Thelemite are not the Hijackers but they absolutely are the grains of sand that in their totality create the wandering dunes that ever so slowly swallow civilizations. Do we say “fuck that grain of sand in particular”? No, but nonetheless we fight the dunes.

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        Do not confuse spiritual belief with religion. Religion by its very definition is fanaticism.