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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

How many wars do you hear the Zoroastrians committing?

Tbh I never heard of them at all.

Pastafarians too.

I feel like that's more of a political group cosplaying as a religion for legal reasons and social commentary.

And weirdly enough Jehovah's witnesses.

They are litterally christians.

Why have disdain for someone wanting to believe in a story? Lots of people do lots of worse lies to themselves.

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)

decades earlier, while Mahatma Gandhi preached Hindu-Muslim unity, the RSS advocated for transforming India — by force, if necessary — into a Hindu nation. (A former RSS worker would fire three bullets into Gandhi’s chest in 1948, killing him months after India gained independence.)

How Buddhist Nationalism Defines Myanmar’s Politics (The Yale review of international studies)

But one view that hardliners and pro-democracy monks share is that they consider Rohingya Muslims ‘outsiders’ and want them sent to detention centers and deported