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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago (18 children)

If only we did all politics like this.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

let's be honest if the argument about anything is religious the person don't have enough brain to debate anything

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I tend to agree, but as I've gotten older I've got a bit less strict with thinking all religious people are idiots.

But I'm still pretty fervently of the mind that dogmatic monotheism is honestly one of the — if not the — worst thing that happened to humanity.

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

[–] explodicle@local106.com 5 points 1 year ago

As I've gotten older I've done the opposite! If they think there are any gods at all, then they make important decisions without evidence. That always spills over into more physical concerns, like climate change.

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