• Horsey@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    because Muslims are fanatics and unfit for democracy, actually kind of have a point.

    i am glad that people are starting to wake up and understand that islam is more of a political ideology than a religion.

    they’re doing it out of pure hatred towards other people

    I would take away the veracity from these statements (because ultimately people can change and Muslims are not a monolith) and I’d say I agree. There is definitely a political aim of the Muslim religion, and us westerners should be rebuking the illiberal aspects of Muslim adherents. It’s one thing to support a Muslim’s choice of religion, it’s another to think it’s okay to give up another group’s freedom because Muslims want to prescribe their beliefs.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      More generally, religion is inherently about exercising control. It’s always a political ideology on a state level, because that’s what religion was always about. There’s a reason heads of state were usually with a church’s blessing, and said blessing could be taken away.

      Christianity is no better in this regard as an example, and while on a microscopic level each individual religion can be more or less a problem in each particular situation, it’d do well for us as a species to grow up and get past our need for Santa Claus in general.