As much as I resent religion, I do believe it's fundamentally a human problem. People everywhere have a tendency to corrupt beliefs in order to justify being assholes to one another.
Religon was created as a control mechanism for governments that didn't have the capability to enforce laws.
It's a method to make communities self police.
Today it is a dangerous tool left lying around for any con man to pick up and weild
That's why fascist movements always have a religious/nationalist base.
100%
That being said, dogmatic belief systems, which tend to be common in religion, seem to act as force multipliers in this regard.
Yeah especially if such dogmatic beliefs make people think dumb or unethical stuff is somehow okay.
ITT people missing the point and projecting their own beliefs and values.
This is how people "strawman". It's easy to hate on atheists if you just see them all as their asshole members. The truth is that any group has their violent nutjobs and vocal minorities. You can't just say all Muslims are terrorists just the same as you can't say feminists are hateful crazies.
Nah organized religon is actually evil
The bottom-left one for Feminists doesn’t fit. The others are things that were created by their own group, for example, the KKK was created by Christians. That Feminist meme, on the other hand, wasn’t created by feminists but by someone else to mock them.
The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists. They have lost control of the word.
Most feminists just don’t call themselves feminists anymore because doing so makes you very likely to get harassed
I prefer to call myself egalitarian
Well they’re not really the same thing, feminism is a social movement with the goal with furthering equality. Egalitarianism just means you think everyone’s equal, doesn’t mean you actually care enough to make that a reality.
TBF I think it'd be risky to use legit examples for that panel
TERFs maybe?
Or the "all men are rapists" crowd, one of the two tbh.
Every woman I know has experienced at least sexual harrasment. Most have experienced SA or rape. Even if a man hasn't done it, he will probably stick by his shitty mates who do or will still stay friends with them because awkwardness and bravery is harder for them than silent compliance.
If its "not all men" then it is certainly all women.
I'm picking that bear over you.
I'm sorry you have a hard life.
That's just womanhood
Only because you make it so.
Now tell me, how is it women's fault that men sexually harass them on the street?
And the "keep calm and hate god" was clearly created by a theist, not an atheist
Good point. Why would an atheist hate something which doesn't exist. The whole meme is bad.
American war propaganda poster for illustrating feminism, that's certainly a choice
The Christian one should be a missionary actually helping people. Christian faith that only exists in church is a false faith
Christian faith that only exists in church is a false faith
They're probably going for how the religion is not what it's supposed to be.
No atheist hates god. How can you hate something you don't think exists?
I guess you can hate god as a concept. God can be proven to exists in human minds (no esoteric stuff, just psychology and sociology). You can hate this scientific fact and what it means for humankind.
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Misandrists exist, but most are harmless. Social media just does a good job of amplifying them like all outrage.
No it doesn't. You just don't want to admit that you benefit from misogyny.
You realize that both misogyny and misandry can exist at the same time in different people?
I don't know why you feel like you know me well enough to make that claim.
The claim that there is such a thing as misandry places them on equal footing and minimises the scale of cultural misogyny.
No it doesn't. The world isn't that binary. That's a twitter mindset.
Read some Judith Butler or Angela Davis
I'm not doing homework for you. Why don't you explain it here?
It also doesn't matter. There are encyclopedias worth of work explaining every opinion you can think of. Thing is, I've dealt with misandrists. One was a guy so far into the "men cause all the problems" territory that the women of that friend group had to have an intervention because he was being increasingly condescending to even women because he didn't think they could fight their own fights.
Honestly, the biggest issue that misandrists cause is being used as a poster child for misogynists for their impression of feminists. Mostly irrelevant because misogynists don't need evidence or reason for their mindsets. Like I said, most misandrists are harmless, but they do exist.
I hate God.
The best example of an asshole atheist they could find was one making a shitty anti-theist meme, meanwhile the examples of asshole Christians and Muslims are violent
CCP and USSR stamped out religious practice, but go off.
As an Atheist myself, don't delude yourself into thinking religion is unique in its capacity for horrors. Humans have that capacity, any group we make would also have that capacity.
The existence of religions itself is harmful to me. Religions make public manipulation very easy. This leads to power accumulation, which is very dangerous for me (unless I'm the one doing the manipulation). Hence, it is in my interest to stamp out all religions.
However, the methods used by the CCP and the USSR failed to stamp out religion. Repression makes religion stronger. In my opinion, societal indoctrination of the laws of logic would stand a better chance at eradicating religion. In other words, good education that revolves around the workings of logic, logical fallacies, etc. would stand a bigger chance at this
I was commenting on the examples the meme chose to use. It implies they couldn't find examples of violent atheists
And 'assholes' just appear at random? Nothing in these groups increases or decreases the asshole frequency? Imagine if we thought of all culture that way. Forget about progressive politics changing people's minds and thereby their behavior. "Some people are just 'assholes', what are you gonna do?"
Assuming the probability of assholiness based on culture is how you treat cultures unequally. You fight assholiness in the individual level. You can't change a culture like that. You can only educate people and they will change their own culture.
Not all beliefs are equal. If you hold by a holy text that says that women can (and should) be bought and sold or are otherwise 'lesser' than men, or you revere an imbecilic demagogue who claims that all immigrants are rapists, murderers and gang members, then yes, the "culture" of your group will have a higher probability of any given person being an asshole than a group of randomly-selected Humanists, for example. To equivocate that all belief systems are equal from a moral perspective is deeply naive.
ETA: I am not a humanist, because I believe that there is a point at which violence is necessary and justified to protect other lives and the rights thereof.
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