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Seems like hard-core hate for anyone religious is fine in many circles. Is there a point where it becomes as problematic as other forms of bigotry? Not any specific religion necessarily just the disdain for the religious in general.

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[-] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

Lots of assumptions in this thread that the concept of 'religion' is interchangeable with 'theism'. It isn't. There's quite a few large religions that are, or can be practised, in a nontheistic way including Buddhism, Hinduism, Taosim and Jainism. There's even a branch of Quakerism that is nontheistic.

Wider definitions of religion exist than simply 'belief in a supernatural deity/deities', including my own - that of modern atheistic Satanism.

In terms of bigotry - being shitty to whole groups of people based on their belief in a non-existent being feels weird to me. Being shitty if they then use that belief to justify their own bigotry is not weird and is called activism. Or to put it another way - if someone believes in a god and prays in a church and makes no comments that support the infringement of other peoples rights to exist and live their lives as they want to then that's totally fine by me.

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[-] Denjin@lemmings.world -1 points 1 month ago

Pretty much immediately. You can hate extremism, you can hate corrupt and damaging institutions and you can hate intolerance. But don't hate someone just because they believe something you don't or you believe the same thing in a slightly different way.

[-] EponymousBosh@awful.systems -1 points 1 month ago

Free blocklist in the comments!

[-] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

If you're still taking supernatural campfire stories with you into adulthood, I view you as a child and, well, children should be seen and not heard.

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