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Then shut up and stop commenting lol. Don't "fix them" then.
I'll comment all I want calling out bigotry, prejudice, and outright ignorance.
The irony.
The only irony here is your inability to recognize your own ignorance in calling religious people dumb.
You are putting words in my mouth. I was not calling religious people dumb, in fact if you look elsewhere in this very thread I said the exact opposite. I celebrate anyone whose life is made better by faith.
But ignoring the historical use of religion by fascistic groups is willful ignorance. Take a beat friend and go re-read what everyone has been telling you. You seem to be under the impression that religion itself is being attacked, but if you actually clicked any of the links I provided earlier you can instead see how indoctrination of religious symbols, phrases and scripture are used to push fascist ideology. No one is saying religion is inherently fascist.
I understand that this is a very personal issue for you, but I truly think you need to try and engage with those sources instead of simply calling everything bullshit.
I ignored nothing, I specifically said that fascists use religion, along with culture, race, sex, gender, national origin, etc. to achieve their ends. To blame religion rather than the fascists themselves is disingenuous.
Well I agree with religion, culture, race and national origin. Gender/sex are weird inclusions, but whatever. You are absolutely correct that they leech on to identity markers.
Like I said before, calm down and scroll up. No one said religion ALONE leads to fascism.
The fascists in the South are rallying folks against trans and non-binary folks on the basis of sex and gender, I saw it all over before I was able to get the hell out of there
Religion doesn't lead to fascism, period. Fascism makes use of religion. And there's plenty of people in this very thread responding with knee-jerk, anti-religion stances. E.g. the "religion make ppl dumb" guy above.
Well I am glad that we found common ground.
Likewise.