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How many wars do you hear the Zoroastrians committing?
Pastafarians too.
And weirdly enough Jehovah's witnesses.
Why have disdain for someone wanting to believe in a story? Lots of people do lots of worse lies to themselves.
Tbh I never heard of them at all.
I feel like that's more of a political group cosplaying as a religion for legal reasons and social commentary.
They are litterally christians.
I don't have disdain for that. My problem with organized religion is that it gives an easy in for maipulators. And naturally defining an arbitrary dividion into an 'in-group' and non-believers leading to conflicts.
And (what the main point of my original comment was) this is not limited to abrahamic religions:
Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream (La times)
How Buddhist Nationalism Defines Myanmar’s Politics (The Yale review of international studies)